20100073262 - Head mounted display device: A head mounted display device has a frame. The frame includes a front portion mountable on a nose of a user, and extending to a right side edge of the front portion, and to a left side edge of the front portion, in front of at least one eye of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20100073263 - E-paper application control based on conformation sequence status: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to:obtaining information associated with one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100073265 - Active-matrix display and drive method thereof: An active-matrix display includes a data line, at least one select line, a control unit supplying a voltage signal and a current signal to the data line, and a pixel circuit receiving the voltage signal and the current signal from the data line to drive a light emitting element, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100073264 - Display medium initialization device and recording device: A display medium initialization device includes: a case containing an irradiation unit that irradiates light to an optical-recording-type display medium configured to display an image according to irradiated light; a light-taking unit that takes outside light into the case from outside the case; and a light-guiding unit that guides the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100073266 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention provides a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a light-emitting device; a first capacitor connected between a first contact point and a second contact point; a driving transistor including an input terminal connected to a first voltage, an output terminal,... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100073267 - Image display device: Disclosed herewith an image display device capable of displaying high quality images and preferred for reducing the manufacturing cost. The image display device is provided with illuminating state controlling state for controlling the illuminating state or non-illuminating state and constant voltage supply for supplying a constant voltage to each pixel... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20100073268 - Organic electroluminescent display device and patterning method: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a driving TFT and pixels which are formed by organic electroluminescent elements and provided in a pattern on a substrate of the TFT. The driving TFT includes at least a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an active layer, a source electrode,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100073269 - Display device and electronic device: A display device capable of displaying a picture of vivid colors maintaining a good balance of colors and a good balance of light-emitting brightnesses of the EL elements. The widths of the detour wirings supplying current to the power source feed lines are increased for those EL elements into which... Agent: Eric Robinson

20100073271 - Balance board and liquid crystal display having the same: A balance board includes; a substrate, a first wire disposed on the substrate, a second wire disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first wire, a plurality of first balance coils connected to the first wire and which uniformly distribute a first power supply voltage, a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100073272 - Display device: In a display device having driving circuits formed on the same substrate where pixels are formed, the lateral frame area of the display device is reduced. A gate signal line driving circuit is placed in parallel with a source signal line driving circuit, so that no driving circuits are provided... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100073273 - Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display device having the same: A liquid crystal panel with an improved picture-quality and an LCD device having the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal panel and the LCD device allows a distance between a pixel electrode and a data line not connected to a thin film transistor and another distance between the pixel electrode... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100073275 - Backlight device and method of driving same: A backlight device includes a backlight array that provides light to a display panel such that the display panel displays an image in accordance with one or more embodiments. The backlight device may include a plurality of backlight drivers that drive the backlight array and a controller that selects one... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100073276 - Backlight luminance control apparatus and video display apparatus: In a video display apparatus, a backlight for illuminating a liquid crystal panel is segmented into a plurality of areas. A frequency distribution processing unit calculates a dark pixel amount from the frequency distribution of the gradation values of pixels in a video image. A backlight control unit calculates a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100073274 - Liquid crystal display device: An LCD device includes: a backlight unit including a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) which generate light, and emit the light to a liquid crystal panel; a main flexible circuit board on which driving circuits to drive the LEDs and the liquid crystal panel; a sub-flexible circuit board on... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100073277 - Diaplay method applied to electrophoretic display: An electrophoretic display includes a plurality of pixels. A display method applied to the electrophoretic display includes the following steps. Firstly, a first frame is displayed on the pixels at a first time. Next, a difference amount between the pixels at the first time and the pixels at a second... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100073281 - Display medium and display device: A display medium includes: a pair of substrates having electrodes and disposed to form a space therebetween, at least one of the substrates transmitting light; a dispersion medium enclosed between the substrates; a group of particles that is dispersed in the dispersion medium and that moves in the dispersion medium... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100073278 - E-paper application control based on conformation sequence status: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100073279 - Electrophoretic display device and method of fabricating the same: A method of fabricating an electrophoretic display device includes forming a gate electrode, a gate line, a data line and a thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode on a substrate having a display region, the thin film transistor connected to the gate... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100073282 - Electrophoretic display device, method of driving the same, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic display device includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, an electrophoretic element between the pixel and common electrodes, a scanning line supplying a scanning signal, a first data line supplying an image signal, a first switching element outputting the image signal, a first memory circuit maintaining the image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100073285 - Display device for displaying a system state: A display device for displaying a system state has an output unit for reproduction of information characteristic of the system state, a sensor for detecting a distance between a user of the display device and the output unit, and a control unit for processing the reproduction of the information in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100073284 - System and method for analyzing movements of an electronic device: The disclosure relates to a system and method for analyzing movements of a handheld electronic device. The system comprises: memory; a microprocessor; a first module to generate movement data responsive to movements of the device; a second module providing instructions to the microprocessor to map the movement data to a... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20100073288 - Control element for a motor vehicle: An input device including a control surface and a control element that can be moved over the control surface, with means for detecting the position and/or movement of the control element on the control surface and an evaluation unit for generating a control signal corresponding to the detected quantity, where... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100073289 - 3d control of data processing through handheld pointing device: A handheld pointer device provides radiation with a directional characteristic relative to its main axis. The radiation is detected by at least two detectors at different positions. This enables determining the orientation of the main axis as well as the displacement of the device along its main axis for 3D... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100073291 - In-vehicle manipulation apparatus and in-vehicle input apparatus: A two-dimensional operation section includes a stick-shaped rocking shaft having an end having an operation knob. The operation knob is operated within a predetermined two-dimensional operation surface determined as an operation range such that a rocking axis of the rocking shaft tilts from a predetermined neutral angular position to a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100073290 - Operating device with a transmitter and a receiver: An operating device comprises a transmitter arrangement (1) and a receiver arrangement (2), which may be moved longitudinally, transversally and vertically with relation to the transmitter arrangement (1) and by means of which different signals can be generated depending on the position of the transmitter arrangement (1). According to the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20100073293 - Navigation device with dual airflow sensors: A navigation device with dual airflow sensors. The navigation device includes a first sensor to detect a first airflow in response to movement of the navigation device in approximately a first direction. The navigation device includes a second sensor to detect a second airflow in response to movement of the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20100073292 - Using vibration to determine the motion of an input device: A method and apparatus for determining the speed and/or position of an input device from vibrational signals is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a response spectrum is generated as the input device moves across a surface. Amplitude and frequency data associated with the response spectrum is analyzed to determine the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/apple

20100073296 - Computer input apparatus: A computer input apparatus includes a keyboard and a mouse. The keyboard includes a housing, a number of input keys, and a telephone module for responding to a call or initiating a call according to a user's input. The input keys include standard keyboard keys and standard telephone keys. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100073295 - Multiple function keyboard: A keyboard includes a speaker, a clock module, a sound storage module, and a processor. The clock module is configured for outputting a clock signal. The sound storage module is configured for storing an alarm file. The processor is connected to a power terminal of the keyboard, the clock module,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100073297 - System and method for incorporating a personalized writing style into a word program: A system, method and computer writeable medium for creating a personalized font and which includes an electronic pad exhibiting a display. A stylus pen is manipulated to mark upon at least one field exhibited by the pad on its display. A separate processor operable device incorporates a keyboard, and to... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100073298 - Data input apparatus: The present invention relates to a data input apparatus which is capable of implementing more key values even in less area and causing a key position to be confirmed easily and thereby recognizing the confirmation of the key position intuitively while minimizing movements of finger when entering the key using... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100073300 - Hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs: A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs is disclosed. In order to operate within the limited space available on a hand-held electronic device, the present invention optimizes the placement and shape of the keys, preferably using keys that are oval or oblong in shape,... Agent: Docket Clerk Kelly-krause

20100073299 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20100073301 - Correction of parasitic capacitance effect in touch sensor panels: Embodiments of the invention relate to correction of erroneous touch data on a touch sensor panel. Erroneous touch data may occur when a user is touching locations on the touch sensor panel but fails to be in good contact with another part of the device including the touch sensor panel.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100073312 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: There are provided a display apparatus and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes: an image processing part which processes an image; a display part which displays the image processed by the image processing part; an input part which recognizes a number of a multi-motion received from a user;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100073306 - Dual-view touchscreen display system and method of operation: A dual-view display system (102) includes a dual-view touchscreen display (104) adapted to display a first image including a first menu to a first user positioned at a first location with respect to system (102) and to display a second image including a second menu to a second user positioned... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20100073313 - Input device and display device with input function: An input device which includes a light-transmissive touch panel, a phase difference plate disposed on the opposite side to an input operation surface of the touch panel, a ¼ wavelength plate disposed on the side of the input operation surface of the touch panel, and a polarizing plate on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100073311 - Input habit determination and interface provision systems and methods: Input habit determination and interface provision systems and methods are provided. First, a movement on a touch-sensitive surface is detected by a touch-sensitive sensor. An input habit is determined according to the movement. Then, a first interface or a second interface is selected for provision from an interface group according... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100073310 - Light transmission touch panel: A light transmission touch panel comprises a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive layer, an insulating layer, a plurality of first metal lines, and a plurality of second metal lines. The transparent conductive layer is overlaid on a surface of the transparent substrate and comprises a plurality of first cells, a... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100073307 - Method for detecting touch points of touch control device: A method for detecting touch points of touch control device is disclosed. The touch control device comprises a first substrate having a first conductive layer and a second substrate having a second conductive layer. The first and second conductive layers are respectively connected to a control circuit which is coupled... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100073303 - Method of operating a user interface: A user interface operating method is provided. The method is suitable for an electronic device having a touch screen. First, a touch sensitive area is activated to detect a first touch. Then, a second touch on the touch screen is detected when the first touch is detected to be laid... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100073315 - Mobile terminal and data display method for the same: A mobile terminal and a method of displaying data for the same are disclosed. The data display method includes displaying one or more tags, checking whether a motion of the mobile terminal is detected, identifying the terminal motion if terminal motion is detected, and displaying rearranged tags when the identified... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100073304 - Multiple actuation handheld device: A device includes a housing, a processor that is coupled to the housing, the processor is configured to process a software program stored in a memory. A touch screen is coupled to the housing and configured to display graphical objects, wherein a sensor signal associated with a user's interaction with... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20100073314 - Portable computer and touch input device: The invention discloses a portable computer comprising a host, a touch input device disposed in the host, and a displayer pivoted on the host. The touch input device comprises a touch module, a switch and a controller. The controller is coupled to the touch module and the switch. The touch... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100073305 - Techniques for adjusting a size of graphical information displayed on a touchscreen: A technique for adjusting graphical information displayed on a touchscreen of a device includes detecting a first input to the touchscreen. Which one of multiple instruments was utilized to provide the first input is then determined. The graphical information displayed on the touchscreen is then sized based on which one... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100073316 - Touch panel and display apparatus with touch panel: The present invention relates to a touch panel (X) including: a first base (10) having a first resistance film (12); a second base (20) having a second resistance film (22) and a inter-base connector electrode (23); and a conductive adhesive member (30) for electrically connecting the first resistance film (12)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100073308 - Touch panel and electronic device thereof: A touch panel and an electronic device thereof are provided. The touch panel includes a film, a substrate and a plurality of dot spacers. The dot spacers are disposed on a surface of the substrate, and the surface faces the film. In addition, the height of the dot spacers in... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100073309 - Touch panel and electronic device thereof: A touch panel and an electronic device thereof are provided. The touch panel includes a film, a substrate and a plurality of dot spacers. The dot spacers are disposed on a surface of the substrate, and the surface faces the film. In addition, the number of/the volume of the dot... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100073302 - Two-thumb qwerty keyboard: A method performed by a device having a touch panel includes detecting a location of a primary touch on the device and detecting on the touch panel a set of near-touch coordinates associated with the primary touch. The method also includes identifying the approach orientation of the primary touch as... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100073319 - Capacitive sensor having electrodes arranged on the substrate and the flex circuit: A capacitive sensor may include a flex circuit, a substrate facing the flex circuit, and conductive electrodes configured to sense an input applied to the substrate. At least one of the conductive electrodes is associated with a surface of the substrate and an at least one of the electrodes is... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20100073317 - Coordinate position detecting device: A coordinate detection device according to the present invention includes: a conductor for locating a point of contact; multiple terminals that are connected to the conductor at mutually different points; a signal output section, which includes a charge storage section to store electrical charge there and which outputs a signal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100073322 - Desktop computer: A desktop computer includes a body, a display and a touch panel. The display is connected to the body by a data wire. The display includes a display screen. The touch panel includes at least one transparent conductive layer including a carbon nanotube structure.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100073321 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises a display module and an antenna module. The display module is adapted to display a plurality of function icons. When the antenna module detects the approaching of an input device, such as the finger of the user or a metal element,... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20100073320 - Multi-touch positioning method for capacitive touch panel: A multi-touch positioning method for a capacitive touch panel includes following steps. A candidate touching position array including a first and a second candidate position groups is generated when the capacitive touch panel is touched by two objects. The first and the second candidate position groups include two first and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100073323 - Mutual capacitance measuring circuits and methods: An apparatus for measuring a parameter related to the capacitance between a drive electrode and a receive electrode of a touch sensitive device. The apparatus includes an accumulator capacitor coupled at one end to a voltage measurement circuit and at the other end to the receive electrode, and control circuitry... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20100073324 - Sensing circuit discharge control method and device for touch panel: A sensing circuit discharge control method and device for a touch panel are disclosed. A discharging duration of a current source in the sensing circuit of the touch panel is fine tuned in a digital control manner, so as to control the discharging amount of the sensing circuit without frequently... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100073326 - Calibration of an optical touch-sensitive display device: Embodiments related to the calibration of an optical touch-sensitive display device are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a method of calibrating an image sensor, wherein the method comprises placing a photoluminescent panel over the display surface, and illuminating a target location on the display surface with visible light.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100073329 - Quick gesture input: A computer-implemented user interface method for a computing device is disclosed. The method includes associating each of a plurality of telephone keys with a direction of each key relative to a center of a telephone keypad, receiving a contact from a user of the device at a location on a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100073330 - Methods and devices relating to transfer of non-pen stroke data: Non-pen stroke data, e.g. barcode data or keyboard data, can be transferred through a transfer system which is formatted specifically for the transfer of pen stroke data, by coding the non-pen stroke data as pen stroke data. The non-pen stroke data may particularly be coded as pen strokes in a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100073331 - Display system: The present invention relates to a display booth (1) for displaying a virtual puppet. The display booth (1) comprises a motion tracking system (3) for tracking the movements of an operator in the display booth (1) and a processor (5) is provided for generating the virtual puppet. A keyboard and... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20100073336 - Apparatus for displaying mark of display device and display device: Provided is an apparatus for properly displaying a mark of a display device although the display device is pivoted. The apparatus includes a display unit, at least two mark units, a state detection unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays images. The mark units are disposed at a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100073335 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention provides a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a plurality of display pixels to display an image, a plurality of data lines connected to the display pixel, and a plurality of sensing lines connected to the display pixel. Each display... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100073332 - Display having a plurality of driver integrated circuits: An electronic device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a liquid-crystal display (LCD) and a plurality of driver integrated circuits (ICs) coupled to the LCD. The driver ICs may be disposed near non-central locations along a side of the LCD, and in some embodiments, one of the... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20100073333 - E-paper application control based on conformation sequence status: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to:one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct obtaining information associated with one or more sequences of two or more conformations... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100073334 - E-paper application control based on conformation sequence status: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100073338 - Increasing dynamic range of display output: A method of controlling an RGBW electroluminescent display system that receives a three-component input image signal having triplets of intensity values in an image range and a highlight range includes transforming at least one of the triplets having an intensity value within the image range to a four-or-more-component drive signal... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20100073339 - System and method for correcting gamma: Disclosed is a system and method for correcting a gamma for shortening a gamma correction time period and improving gamma correction efficiency and reliability thereof, and simplifying a gamma correction device for reducing a production cost of image display devices.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100073341 - Electro-optical device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a display panel having a switching transistor and a pixel electrode that are disposed in correspondence with an intersection of a scanning line and a data line, an opposing electrode that faces the pixel electrode, and an electro-optical layer that is pinched between the pixel electrode... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100073343 - Liquid crystal display device: A LCD device, in which a multi-grayscale level state is produced in a liquid crystal layer by applying a different voltage thereto, includes a liquid crystal display panel having the liquid crystal layer between first and second electrodes, an electrode drive circuit applying drive voltage pulses generated from multi-voltage power... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100073342 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention efficiently accumulates charges in respective electrodes, using a driving signal supplied in a second set-down period, to prevent a flickering erroneous discharge caused by deficiency of wall charges. As a result, the plasma display apparatus can improve picture quality of a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100073346 - Display device and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a plurality of display pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of display pixels, and a plurality of sensing lines connected to the display pixels. Each display pixel includes a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100073344 - Pixel circuit and display device: In at least one embodiment, an electrooptic element is connected between a first power supply wire and a second conducting terminal of a driving transistor. A first conducting terminal of the driving transistor is connected to a second power supply wire. The second conducting terminal of the driving transistor is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100073349 - Pixel driver with low voltage transistors: An image display system implemented with a spatial light modulator (SLM) comprising a plurality of pixel elements each comprises a driver circuit. The driver circuit further comprises at least a first and second transistors cascaded with a first capacitor between a high voltage (Vh) and a ground voltage (Vg) wherein... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20100073348 - Pulse output circuit, shift register and display device: A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 so that the TFTs would turn ON and then potential of a node á rises. When the potential of the node á reaches (VDD−VthN), the node á became in a floating state. Accordingly, a TFT 105 then turns ON, and potential... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100073347 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus: It is made possible to prevent luminance falling and moire occurrence and change over between a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image partially. When displaying one of a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image on a background and displaying the other image in a window, a flag bit indicating whether... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100073350 - Display with reduced parasitic effects: Visual artifacts in a display are reduced by moving, to the extent possible, display driver components to the display surface itself, thereby shortening conductor distances and reducing the parasitic effects caused by parasitic resistance of the conductors between the display power supply and the display, and between the stabilizing capacitors... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100073352 - Semiconductor element, electric circuit, display device and light-emitting device: A current storing circuit capable of having a small area, a simple structure with the small number of devices, a low consumption current operation and high yield in manufacturing is provided. Applying the current storing circuit to the current-driving type of display device such as an OLED display device can... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20100073351 - Ultra-low-power display control circuit and associated method: An ultra-low-power display control circuit and associated method is provided. The ultra-low-power display control circuit comprises a power conversion controller, a first capacitor, a transforming device, a second capacitor, a regulator, an opto-coupler and a display controller. The first capacitor couples to the power conversion controller and the transforming device.... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100073355 - Liquid crystal display device having a shift register: An LCD device includes a plurality of gate lines formed in an LCD panel; a plurality of driving stages, each of which sequentially outputting a respective enabling scan pulse to a corresponding one of the plurality of gate lines; at least one dummy stage responsive to an enabling scan pulse... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20100073354 - Panel assembly and display apparatus having the same: A panel assembly includes a display panel and a panel driving apparatus. The display panel includes a data line and a gate line extended in a direction that crosses the data line. The panel driving apparatus includes a first gate driving circuit that outputs a first gate signal to the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100073357 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The display device includes a plurality of display pixels, a plurality of data lines that are connected to the display pixels, and a plurality of sensing lines that are connected to the display pixels. Each display pixel includes:... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100073359 - Apparatus and method for setting a waypoint: A display system for use on a vehicle is presented. The display system comprises a cursor control device, at least one electronic display for displaying a first image comprising a three-dimensional conformal view of a terrain and a first movable cursor, and a processor that is coupled to the cursor... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100073364 - Conversion method and apparatus with depth map generation: A conversion method and apparatus with a generating of a depth map for two dimensional (2D)-to-three dimensional (3D) conversion. A depth order may be restored based on a line tracing and an edge map generated from an input image, and a stereo image may be generated using depth information.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100073367 - Image processing program and image processing device: A video game device calculates an angle of an object 71, etc., with respect to a reference direction in a three-dimensional space. Then, the video game device defines a virtual cylindrical model for each of a plurality of objects so that a bottom surface of each cylindrical model is perpendicular... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20100073360 - Input device for graphics: An input device for editing a 3D model displayed in a screen is provided. The input device includes a signal transceiver module and a telescopic sensing component. The signal transceiver module communicates with a graphic system to obtain information of the 3D model. The signal transceiver module includes a first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100073361 - Interactive design, synthesis and delivery of 3d character motion data through the web: Systems and methods are described for animating 3D characters using synthetic motion data generated by generative models in response to a high level description of a desired sequence of motion provided by an animator. In a number of embodiments, an animation system is accessible via a server system that utilizes... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20100073362 - Method and system for scene adaptive dynamic 3-d color management: A video processing system may determine a scene in an image and may adaptively adjust one or more of three dimensional color components of the image based on the determined scene. The three dimensional color components may comprise luma, hue and/or saturation. Statistics for the three dimensional color components may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100073366 - Model generation apparatus and method: To estimate a position and orientation of an image pickup device relative to an object to be observed, a model generation apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a depth image representing a distance between a certain point and an object to be observed per pixel with three-dimensional information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100073363 - System and method for real-time environment tracking and coordination: A configurable real-time environment tracking and command module (RTM) is provided to coordinate one or more than one devices or objects in a physical environment. A virtual environment is created to correlate with various objects and attributes within the physical environment. The RTM is able to receive data about attributes... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20100073368 - Methods and systems to determine conservative view cell occlusion: Methods and systems to determine view cell occlusion, including to project objects of a 3-dimensional graphics environment to a 2-dimensional image plane with respect to the view point, to reduce sizes of corresponding object images, to generate an occluder map from the reduced-size object images, to compare at least a... Agent: Garrett Ip, LLC

20100073369 - Systems and methods for a ray tracing shader api: Aspects include API interfaces for interfacing shaders with other components and/or code modules that provide ray tracing functionality. For example, API calls may allow direct contribution of light energy to a buffer for an identified pixel, and allow emission of new rays for intersection testing alone or in bundles. The... Agent: San Francisco Office Of Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20100073370 - Systems and methods for a ray tracing shader api: Aspects include API interfaces for interfacing shaders with other components and/or code modules that provide ray tracing functionality. For example, API calls may allow direct contribution of light energy to a buffer for an identified pixel, and allow emission of new rays for intersection testing alone or in bundles. The... Agent: San Francisco Office Of Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20100073371 - Large format video archival, storage, and retrieval system and method: The present invention is for an apparatus and method to archive, store and retrieve large format video. The apparatus includes means for storing temporally sequential image sections of the digital files in tiled and overlapping format in a storage drive, and means for streaming temporally sequential image data to a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100073372 - Method and system for progressive image transmission: A method and system for transmitting an image progressively is provided. The transmission system identifies a first region and a second region of the image. The transmission system also identifies a first resolution and a second resolution. The transmission system then transmits the image by transmitting, in the following order,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100073374 - Calculating a webpage importance from a web browsing graph: Method for creating a graph representing web browsing behavior, including receiving web browsing behavior data from one or more web browsers; adding a node on the graph for each web page listed in the web browsing behavior data; adding a first link connecting two or more nodes on the graph,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100073376 - Electronic imaging device and method of electronically rendering a wavefront: An electronic wavefront device (10) comprises a controller (32) configured to provide a wavefront rendering signal and at least one wavefront rendering device (12, 14) coupled to said controller. The at least one wavefront rendering device is configured to produce a holographic wavefront on a respective plane of the at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100073377 - Method and apparatus for animating transition among dynamic graph series: A method and an apparatus for animating transition among a dynamic graph series including a preceding graph and a succeeding graph which are temporally sequentially displayed. The method includes: selecting an unchanged node which is the nearest to a removed node and merging through animation the removed node with the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100073373 - System and method to model application maturity: A system and method is provided for modeling an application and, more particularly, to a system and method for providing a maturity model of an application (e.g., web 2.0 maturity model). The system is implemented in a computer infrastructure and includes a computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100073378 - Object-shape generation method, object-shape generation apparatus, and program: Even in a situation in which an image of the back side of an object cannot be captured, the shape of the object can be generated with high accuracy. For individual images captured from the circumference of an object, projection regions projected in an area from the surface of projection... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100073379 - Method and system for rendering real-time sprites: A method and system for improving rendering performance at a client. The method includes, responsive to an initial request for a first animation sequence at a client, downloading a first 3D object from a server. The method includes rendering the first 3D object into the first animation sequence. The method... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100073380 - Method of operating a design generator for personalization of electronic devices: A method of generating a customized image includes forming a first design including a first pattern having a first color and a second color. The method also includes receiving input from a user using a design modification element. The method further includes forming a second design including a second pattern... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100073381 - Methods for generating one or more composite image maps and systems thereof: A method, computer readable medium, and system for generating a composite image map includes obtaining a plurality of sprites for an application page and determining coordinates of each of the obtained plurality of sprites. A composite image map is generated based on the obtained plurality of sprites and the determined... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20100073382 - System and method for sequencing media objects: A method of displaying a long animation is provided. The animation is defined in an animation file, which identifies a set of images that form the animation when sequentially displayed. A batch processor segments the set of images into sequential subsets, with each subset sized smaller than a maximum size.... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20100073383 - Cloth simulation pipeline: A cloth simulation pipeline calculates normals between a cloth image and a colliding object image. The maximum value normal may be used to resolve the collision between the object and cloth images.... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100073384 - Liquid crystal display and display system comprising the same: A liquid crystal display and a display system including the same are provided in one or more embodiments. For example, a liquid crystal display may include for an embodiment a bi-directional channel, a memory in which driving signal generation data including information required to generate a plurality of driving signals... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100073385 - Display control device and display control method: A display control device includes a storage module which stores numbers of divisions to divide a display region of a display module in the vertical and horizontal directions; a graduation generation module which generates an image of graduations showing boundaries to divide the display region of the display module into... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100073386 - Processing pixel planes representing visual information: A computer system may comprise a graphics controller, which may support a display handler. In one embodiment, the display handler may receive configuration values comprising a quantity value and a blending order. In one embodiment, the display handler may determine the number of universal pixel planes using the quantity value.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100073387 - Display device with embedded networking capability: A display device with embedded networking capability is described herein. The display device uses at least a portion of a memory of the display device, the memory of which is used for storing video/image data in the display, to store networking codes for establishing and maintaining the network connection.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100073388 - Unified memory architecture and display controller to prevent data feed under-run: A display controller for controlling data in an isochronous display where fluctuation of data feed latency occurs, the display controller including an input memory which receives pixel data and transmits the pixel data through a main route and a secondary route; wherein pixel data is transmitted through the main route... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100073389 - Display device: In a display device which arranges a memory part for every display pixel, an erroneous operation of the memory part and the power consumption can be reduced. In a display device provided with a display panel which includes a plurality of display pixels, video lines which apply video data to... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100073390 - Color profiling of monitors: A monitor sends an alert to a host computer operatively coupled to the monitor. As a result of receiving the alert, the host computer retrieves display panel data and retrieves monitor control settings from the monitor. The host computer uses the display panel data and monitor control settings to compute... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100073392 - Method and system for driving interferometric modulators: Systems and methods for driving a display of MEMS devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display includes an array comprising a plurality of interferometric modulators, and a driving circuit coupled to said array, said driving circuit configured to provide actuation signals to drive said array based on a temperature... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20100073393 - Content detection of a part of an image: Methods for image content detection calculate (16), for a pixel, an estimated intensity of the pixel and calculate (17), for the pixel, an actual intensity of this pixel and detect (18) whether a function of the estimated intensity and the actual intensity fulfils an intensity condition and generate (19), in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100073394 - Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats: A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics system has a graphics processor includes an embedded frame buffer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20100073396 - Smart photobook creation: A method for producing a photo album includes sorting images according to a primary predetermined criterion, separating the sorted images into a first page group and a second page group using one or more secondary criteria, and automatically selecting a first page layout from a library of page layouts. The... Agent: Dr. Xin Wen

20100073397 - System and method for grouped pixel addressing: In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a system and method for displaying an image are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a data stream representing a frame of an image. The data stream may indicate a first color pixel cluster corresponding to a first color... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100073401 - Adaptive sampling region: Properties of pixels in a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different property distributions. The different subdivisions can automatically alter their size, geometry, and/or location, based on image content within one or more of the subdivisions, in order to encompass a set... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20100073399 - Methods and devices for controlling a presentation of an object: A first communication device may include a control unit to determine a first image of an object to be used in generating a multi-dimensional representation. The multi-dimensional representation may be set in at least two states, each representing an expression and to be controlled by commands. Furthermore, the control unit... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100073400 - Parallel grid population: Parallel population of a grid with a plurality of objects using a plurality of processors. One example embodiment is a method for parallel population of a grid with a plurality of objects using a plurality of processors. The method includes a first act of dividing a grid into n distinct... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100073398 - Visual summarization of web pages: A visual summarization of a web page is generated. This generally involves identifying at least one of, an image that is exemplary of the page content, text that is exemplary of the page content, and a logo associated with the web page. The exemplary image and logo, if identified, are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100073402 - Method of automatic cropping: A method for rectangular cropping including the steps of: (i) providing a sequence of images on a graphical interface device; (ii) analyzing each pixel in the first image included in the sequence of images; (iii) locating a boundary between the background of the first image and the border of the... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20100073403 - Structure-preserving clone brush: The invention provides tools and techniques for clone brushing pixels in an image while accounting for inconsistencies in apparent depth and orientation within the image. The techniques do not require any depth information to be present in the image, and the data structure of the image is preserved. The techniques... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100073404 - Hand image feedback method and system: An image generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing apparatus from a video recording device attached to a backside of a video monitor connected to the computing apparatus, a video data stream comprising a first video image of an input device connected to the computing apparatus... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100073405 - Unipolar gray scale drive scheme for cholesteric liquid crystal displays: A unipolar gray scale drive scheme for passive matrix displays, more specifically, cholesteric liquid crystal displays, capable of creating any number of desired levels of gray scale. The drive scheme is single stage and can use either an amplitude modulation or a pulse width modulation column voltage signal in combination... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20100073406 - Display device, and driving method and electronic apparatus of the display device: The present invention provides a driving method of a display device for expressing gray scales with n bits (n is an integer) by dividing one frame into a plurality of subframes. By this driving method, pseudo contours which occur in displaying images by a time gray scale method can be... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20100066642 - Context aware auxiliary display platform and applications: Described is a mechanism by which application programs (or plug-ins) and an auxiliary service adjust the output and/or data available for output on an auxiliary device based on changes detected in the current context of the auxiliary display. Context sensors detect and report changes in context, whereby some action is... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100066641 - Controlled lighting system and use of such a system: Programming illuminated displays in open spaces poses special challenges to the operator. The invention proposes a controlled lighting system and the use of such a system. An exemplary program is generated, which is highly variable, and hence can be approved for open spaces.... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20100066640 - Electronic device with locking, movable displays: An electronic device comprises one or more input devices configured to receive user input from a device user, a first display configured to display first visual content to the device user, and a second display configured to display second visual content to the device user and movable between first and... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20100066643 - Method for indicating location and direction of a graphical user interface element: In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input at a first display surface of an electronic device to move a graphical user interface element displayed at the first display surface. The electronic device includes a second display surface separated from the first display surface by a gap.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100066644 - Heads up projection system for handheld devices with displays: A system for projecting a display image from a handheld portable device having a display, such as a cell phone or a GPS device, the system including a housing for containing one or more components, a high intensity light source located adjacent to the display and disposed to emit light... Agent: Harding, Earley, Follmer & Frailey

20100066645 - High visibility head-up display system: In a high visibility head-up display system where display light outputted from a display part 12 is reflected near a position of a front window shield 7, a portion of a masking portion 2a that covers a circumferential portion of the front window shield 7 is enlarged to form an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100066646 - Liquid crystal display device: A dual-display liquid crystal display device concurrently displays two images so that the two images can be identified from two different viewing directions by including sub-pixel areas each having therein a first storage capacitor section extending along a scanning line and a second storage capacitor section extending along a signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100066648 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus for displaying indications using liquid crystal or Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) that includes a 12-segment display, including a first segment horizontally disposed with an inverted trapezoidal shape, a second segment disposed under the right end of the first segment with a parallelogram shape, a third segment disposed under... Agent: Robert W. Becker & Associates

20100066649 - Wavelength converting apparatus and image displaying apparatus: A wavelength converting apparatus comprising: a laser resonator; a first wavelength converting element that converts a fundamental wave outputted from the laser resonator into a harmonic wave; a first temperature control element that controls the temperature of the first wavelength converting element; a second wavelength converting element that converts a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100066650 - Liquid crystal display device including touch panel: A liquid crystal display device in which a touch panel is embedded in a liquid crystal panel, which reduces the number of processes and eases assembly. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates opposite each other, a thin film transistor array formed on the first substrate, a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100066652 - Display apparatus: A display device having a substrate, a power supply line, and a pixel electrode. The display device also having a transistor having a gate electrode and electrically coupled between the power supply line and the pixel electrode, a opposite electrode, and an organic semiconductor film disposed between the pixel electrode... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100066653 - Display device and electronic device: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which images can be seen under a dark place to intense external light. In the display device, display is performed by changing the gray scale number depending on external light intensity, and display modes can be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100066651 - Organic light emitting diode display and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof. The organic light emitting device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first pixel displaying a first color; a second pixel displaying a second color; and a third pixel displaying a third... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100066654 - Three-dimensional display device: A three-dimensional display device including a collimated backlight module, a first display panel, a second display panel, and a lens array is provided. The collimated backlight module has a light-emitting surface and provides a light with a divergent angle smaller than 10° from the light-emitting surface. The first display panel... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100066655 - Thin film transistor panel and liquid crystal display using the same: An LCD device includes a transmissive LCD panel assembly, a backlight assembly for supplying light to the LCD panel assembly, and a selective reflection film provided between the backlight assembly and the LCD panel assembly. A display region of the LCD has a low-resolution area and a high-resolution area, and... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100066657 - Liquid crystal display: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display capable of reducing a side effect during local LED dimming to reduce power consumption and improve display quality. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal cells formed respectively in a plurality of pixel areas defined... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100066658 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) has first, second, and third pixels adjacent to one another in a column direction. The LCD includes a first gate line connected to each of the second and third pixels in common, a capacitance electrode line connected to each of the first and second pixels... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100066661 - Liquid crystal panel, video display device, and video display method: According to one embodiment, a lighting panel includes a display configured to switch a first video to a second video for display and a lighting module configured to, if while switching from the first video to the second video, the display displays a mixture of an area in which the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100066659 - Method and system of dynamic backlight modulation: A method and system for dynamic backlight modulation are provided for a liquid crystal display. An image signal is analyzed to acquire an intensity and distribution. Based on the acquired intensity and distribution, a processor controls the backlight intensity of a backlight module for a liquid crystal display. A modulation... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100066660 - Scanning driving apparatus for backlight source and liquid crystal display using the same: A scanning backlight source driving apparatus and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided, wherein the scanning backlight source driving apparatus includes a DC/AC inverter, N transformers, N switches, and a control circuit, where N is a natural number. The DC/AC inverter has a first output terminal and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100066666 - Display apparatus and image display method thereof: A display apparatus and an image display method thereof are provided. The display apparatus automatically displays images stored in a memory in a pre-set order, and displays the images in various sequences if a change in position of the display apparatus is detected by a motion sensor. Accordingly, the sequence... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100066662 - Image display device: An image display device makes it possible to easily display a stereoscopically two-dimensional image and to improve its direction effect. A display device includes a first display for displaying a first image on a first screen, an image transmission element that is set in a light path for a display... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100066668 - Mechanism for displaying paginated content on electronic display devices: A computing device is provided that includes a display comprising a plurality of discrete elements. A memory is used to store a data collection of paginated content. A processor of the computing device is configured to retrieve each of the pages from the memory. The processor signals the display to... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20100066667 - Orienting a displayed element relative to a user: An element is initially displayed on an interactive touch-screen display device with an initial orientation relative to the interactive touch-screen display device. One or more images of a user of the interactive touch-screen display device are captured. The user is determined to be interacting with the element displayed on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100066663 - Remote control pointing technology: A system is disclosed comprising a pointing device (10), an appliance (20) and at least two light sources (30), which are either part of the appliance (20) or which are positioned in its vicinity. The pointing device (10) comprises a light detector (12) for detecting light signals from the at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100066665 - Tablet computer equipped with microphones: A tablet PC capable of providing continuous utilization of a sound signal collected from a microphone without requiring any user intervention when a use mode thereof has been changed from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode is disclosed. The tablet PC includes a set of microphones to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100066664 - Wrist-worn input apparatus and method: Provided are a wrist-worn input apparatus and method. The apparatus and method can segment meaningful hand gestures using a vibration sound generated by a finger tapping and can issue commands corresponding to the recognized hand gestures, enabling the user to easily input commands to electronic devices.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100066670 - Force sensing for fine tracking control of mouse cursor: Systems and methods for controlling a navigational object (e.g., a cursor) using an input device are disclosed herein. A system in accordance with one embodiment includes a motion-based input device adapted to move relative to a surface. The input device has one or more force sensors capable of detecting forces... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/apple

20100066669 - Using measurement of lateral force for a tracking input device: Systems and methods for using measurements of a lateral force applied to a motion-based input device are disclosed. The input device has a force detection module operable to detect lateral forces applied to the input device and generate force data representative of the applied lateral forces. The system also includes... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/apple

20100066675 - Compact interactive tabletop with projection-vision: The subject application relates to a system(s) and/or methodology that facilitate vision-based projection of any image (still or moving) onto any surface. In particular, a front-projected computer vision-based interactive surface system is provided which uses a new commercially available projection technology to obtain a compact, self-contained form factor. The subject... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100066674 - Cursor controlling apparatus and the method therefor: The invention relates to a cursor controlling apparatus for controlling a cursor according to an input information comprising an input module, a processing module and a controlling module. The input module is used for generating the input information. The processing module coupled to the input module is used for generating... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100066676 - Gestural control of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems: Systems and methods are described for controlling a remote system. The controlling of the remote system comprises detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector. The gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20100066672 - Method and apparatus for mobile communication device optical user interface: An optical user interface is provided in a mobile communication device. Motion of an input mechanism of the mobile communication device is detected via an optical sensor. In response to detection, one or more properties governing the motion are evaluated based on input from a motion sensor. Control information is... Agent: Snyder, Clark, Lesch & Chung, LLP

20100066677 - Computer peripheral device used for communication and as a pointing device: A computer peripheral device used for communication and computing input is provided comprising a digital medium for storing data and software, a processor for controlling computing functions, a power source, a motion detection sensor, communication software residing on and executable from the digital medium, computing input device software residing on... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20100066680 - Methods and systems for measuring speckle translation with spatial filters: Two or more spatial filters are used in determining velocity based on speckle translation. A light source may be turned on, turned off, or both for a variable amount of time during operation. The velocity may then be determined with trend identification, correlation, recursive frequency estimation, or measurement bandwidth variation.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20100066679 - Power saving apparatus and method for wireless mouse: The invention mainly relates to a mouse with a capacitive tact switch incorporated thereto. When the user touches the mouse, the capacitive tact switch in the mouse will sense the proximity and inform the host control circuit immediately. Contrarily, when the user's hand is leaving the mouse, the capacitive tact... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100066681 - Integrated haptic control apparatus and touch sensitive display: The provision of a haptic input with an integrated touch screen input is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a control apparatus for an electronic device. The control apparatus comprises a haptic input mechanism configured to provide haptic feedback responsive to a push input, and an integrated touch sensitive display forming... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100066692 - Contact detecting device and display device: Disclosed herein is a contact detecting device including: a contact responding section configured to produce an electric change in response to an object to be detected coming into contact with or proximity to a detecting surface; and a contact driving scanning section configured to scan application of driving voltage to... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20100066689 - Devices related to projection input surfaces: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods that are related to a projection input surface. For example, in some implementations, a device includes one or more projection input surfaces configured to receive projection input from one or more projectors; and one or more projection input capture modules configured... Agent: Constellation Law Group, PLLC

20100066690 - Digitizing tablet devices, methods and systems: Digitizing tablet methods and systems are provided. Various embodiments of the digitizing tablet include a pointer, an input surface and a display. In some embodiments, both an inner and outer portion of the input surface can be associated with indicia, each of the indicia being operable to trigger a function... Agent: Dwc Law Firm, P.s.

20100066682 - Electronic device with a touch panel: An electronic device with a touch panel has an insulating housing, a display module mounted on the insulating housing, a touch panel and a shell. The touch panel fixed on the display module has a fixing plate and a touch portion fixed on the fixing plate. The fixing plate is... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100066685 - Electronic document reading device: An electronic document reading device includes an electronic page having at least one display surface; a page support, said page being attached to said page support such that said page is physically turnable; a memory to store at least part of a document to be read; a page driver coupled... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100066695 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a display unit for displaying thereon a plurality of input regions operated by an operating body, a detection unit for detecting an approach distance between the operating body and a surface of the display unit, and a region control unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100066691 - Input apparatus and computer readable recording medium recorded with image processing program: A handwriting input apparatus and a computer readable recording medium recorded with an image processing program are provided, which both enable easy edit and high-quality display of edited content. A defining module defines a locus of a character and/or graphic contained in a group. When a gesture indicative of an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100066694 - Method and apparatus for providing finger touch layers in a user agent: A method and apparatus for selecting an item on a display screen with a touch interface by touching the display screen with a finger or stylus-type device. The touch point on the screen is detected, and a touch radius is established with respect to the touch point. When selectable items... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100066683 - Method for transferring thin film to substrate: A method for transferring single layer thin film from a temporary substrate to a target substrate is disclosed. A base layer may be fabricated onto a fabrication sheet. A single layer thin film of conductive material may be patterned onto the base layer. A temporary transfer substrate may be adhered... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100066688 - Mobile terminal and method of controlling the mobile terminal: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a web page screen on a touch screen of the mobile terminal; choosing a portion of the web page in response to a touch input to the touch screen; and if a movement... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100066684 - Multimodal portable communication interface for accessing video content: A portable communication device has a touch screen display that receives tactile input and a microphone that receives audio input. The portable communication device initiates a query for media based at least in part on tactile input and audio input. The touch screen display is a multi-touch screen. The portable... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20100066686 - Multipoint touch sensor with active matrix: The present invention relates to a multipoint touch sensor with active matrix comprising: —a matrix layer exhibiting N×M independent cells, each of the cells Px, y being linked to a row Lx and to a column Cy through a switching element, the rows Lx being common to all the cells... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100066697 - Pressure measurement device and corresponding method: A pressure measurement device and a pressure measurement method are provided, the pressure to be measured being exerted by an object onto a contact area of the pressure measurement device. The pressure measurement device comprises an image acquisition module having the contact area, image data of an elastically structured subsurface... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100066696 - Proximity sensor based input system and method for operating the same: A proximity sensor based input system and a method for operating the system are disclosed. The input system receives sensed information from a proximity sensing part including a plurality of proximity sensors and distinguishes functions of direction keys and rotation keys based on the sensed information, thereby controlling a currently... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100066693 - Touch panel device: A touch panel device according to the present invention includes: a stylus pen including a conductive stylus pen electrode portion at a tip portion thereof; a plurality of capacitance detecting interconnections formed on a substrate in row and column directions; an oscillator circuit which outputs an oscillation signal for performing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100066687 - User interface device for controlling an audio visual system: A user interface device for controlling an audio visual system. In one embodiment, a device for interfacing with an audio/visual system includes a sensor mat including a surface and operable to be disposed on a substantially flat floor. The sensor mat is further operable for generating electrical signals responsive to... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20100066700 - Capacitive touch screen: A capacitive touch screen has fewer manufacturing steps to reduce the cost of manufacture. The touch screen has ITO conductor traces that are resistance matched to maintain the accuracy of the touch screen while reducing the cost of manufacture. In addition, offset pattern printing is used to apply an optically... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20100066702 - Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates facing each other and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, each of the first and second substrates defining a central display region and a peripheral non-display region; a cover glass integrated... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100066701 - Multiple touch location in a three dimensional touch screen sensor: A touch screen capable of correctly identifying multiple touches employs multiple active line arrays oriented to provide multi-dimensional data. Three arrays of capacitance based active lines are each distinctly oriented to form a plurality of intersections. A first and second array are generally oriented perpendicularly while a third array is... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100066703 - Embedded optical induction input device and method of implementing the same: An embedded optical induction input device and method of implementing the same. Such a device includes a light sensing circuit and a conversion circuit. The light sensing circuit generates an induced current signal based on the variations of the intensity of light irradiation received as caused by a touch-control-position event;... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20100066704 - Position input device: The position input device (10) includes: a light guide plate (5) having a surface with an active input area (1) formed thereon, for allowing one to touch the surface for identification of an input position to obtain scattered light from a ray of light traveling under the input position; a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100066705 - Highlevel active pen matrix: The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for receiving and acting upon user input. In one embodiment, the user may only have access to a limited input device, like a stylus. Using the present invention, a user is provided with intuitive responses from the system based on... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100066707 - A digital to analogue converter: In one embodiment of the present invention, a digital/analogue converter for converting an input n-bit digital code includes: a switched capacitor digital/analogue converter including a plurality of capacitors. The lower plate of each is connectable, dependent on the input digital code, to either a first reference voltage or a second... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100066708 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display apparatus includes a timing controller which outputs image data, a data control signal and a first gate control signal, a data driving circuit which receives the image data and converts the image data into data voltages, a control signal converting circuit which delays the first gate control signal... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100066710 - Nail chip mounted with image display device and dedicated charger: [Means for Solving Problems] A laminate comprising at least a circuit substrate mounted with a memory which stores of inputted or received image data and with an arithmetic part for arithmetic operation of the image data and outputting of the results; a display device which displays an image in accordance... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20100066714 - Display device and driving control method for the same: A display device includes a display panel having a display area in which a plurality of display pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, to display image information, a power supply driving section applying, to each of the display pixels in the display area, one of a first power supply voltage having a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100066713 - Image display: An image display device including an illumination means and a display means is provided. The illumination means has: a light source including a plurality of partial lighting sections; a drive means for driving the partial lighting sections separately; a plurality of photo-reception elements; and a control means for controlling the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100066712 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: According an aspect of the invention, a video processing apparatus including: a sensor configured to measure an illuminance level; and a processing unit configured to receive a video signal and perform a gamma correction processing on the video signal to correct luminance of the video signal by using a correction... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100066717 - Display device and image erasing method: A display device including a display layer displaying a black or white color according to an applied voltage, a transparent and non-transparent electrode that are disposed to sandwich the display layer, and a TFT driving circuit capable of applying any given voltage between the pair of electrodes. Also provided is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100066716 - Thin display device and method for controlling display content of electronic paper: A thin display device includes: an electronic paper having a display face, and a back face opposite to the display face; a flexure detector disposed on the back face of the electronic paper for detecting flexing of the electronic paper and generating a corresponding electronic signal; and a processing unit... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20100066720 - Data driver and display device: A data driver, for sequentially supplying image data of each pixel to a display panel having pixels arranged in a matrix layout, for every line, includes a frame memory for storing pixel data having multiple-bits per single pixel in single screen segments; and a structure for converting from multiple-bit pixel... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20100066723 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display apparatus includes a timing controller, a column driver, a row driver and a display unit. The timing controller outputs a first column clock embedded into image data during an active period, and outputs a second column clock embedded into blank data during a blank period. The column driver... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100066725 - Method and apparatus for dc level redistribution: A DC level redistribution method includes the steps of: receiving all positive signals and one negative signal of a plurality of pairs of differential signals; fixing a DC level of a positive signal of a designated pair of differential signals among a plurality of pairs of differential signals as a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100066724 - Method of driving display panel and display apparatus using the same: Disclosed are a method of driving a display panel and a display apparatus using the same, in which a driving voltage is applied to a transistor provided in each pixel of the display to drive the transistor. A voltage level of the driving voltage applied to the transistor is adjusted... Agent: Innovation Counsel LLP

20100066721 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A first ramp waveform rising from a first potential (Vi1) to a second potential (Vi2) is applied to a plurality of scan electrodes (SC) in a first half period of a setup period, and a third ramp waveform rising from a fifth potential (a ground potential) to a sixth potential... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100066726 - Liquid crystal display and memory controlling method thereof: A display device including a display panel having a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines disposed cross-wisely, a timing controller, the timing controller including a data comparing and blank time detecting device comparing whether current data and previous data are same and detecting a blank time... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100066728 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: A liquid crystal display device and driving method therefor are disclosed. The device includes a plurality of signal lines that apply different gray scale voltages to each of the pixels. A driving circuit is provided to generate the gray scale voltages to be applied to the pixels. In operation, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100066727 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A scan electrode driving circuit applies a rising ramp waveform voltage to scan electrodes (SCN1 to SCNn) to generate a first setup discharge in a first period within a setup period, applies a dropping ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrodes (SCN1 to SCNn) to generate a second setup discharge... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100066729 - Digital photo frame capable of adjusting digital image and method thereof: A digital photo frame capable of adjusting images is provided. The digital photo frame includes a user input unit, a memory, a display, a processor. The memory is configured for storing images, original image property settings, and a predetermined algorithm, the predetermined algorithm records a rule to retrieve other settings... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100066731 - Configurator process and system: A configurator that creates multi angle images of a product that can be configured with options, accessories, colors and the like in 2d imagery, which does not require special software or hardware to view and interact with the configurator. The configurator automatically generates layer logic of how the product can... Agent: Timothy J. Engling Miller, Canfield, Paddock And Stone, P.L.C

20100066737 - Dynamic-state estimating apparatus, dynamic-state estimating method, and program: A dynamic-state estimating apparatus includes a control-point setting unit setting a plurality of control points for a three-dimensional object model; a control-point color-information acquiring unit acquiring control-point color information indicating the color at a projection position where each control point is projected on an object image; an initial control-point color-information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100066732 - Image view synthesis using a three-dimensional reference model: A novel image view may be synthesized using a three-dimensional reference model. In an example embodiment, a device-implemented method for synthesizing a novel image view includes acts of registering, selecting, applying and synthesizing. An image is registered to at least one reference model. A source block of visual data from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100066736 - Method, information storage medium, and game device: In a first-person gun shooting game or the like, when the player has performed a shooting operation, a bullet is fired from a gun held by a player's character. When the bullet has hit an enemy character, the enemy character is damaged. The bullet that has hit the enemy character... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100066738 - Mixed reality space image providing apparatus: A mixed reality space image providing apparatus configured to provide a user with a mixed reality space image in which a virtual object image is superimposed on a real space image is provided includes a selection unit configured to select simulation processing from among a plurality of types of simulation... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100066733 - System and method for managing virtual world environments based upon existing physical environments: In general, the present invention provides a system and method for creating, managing and utilizing virtual worlds for enhanced management of an Information Technology (IT) environment. Two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) virtual world renditions are automatically created to replicate the associated real-life IT environment. Such virtual environments can... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100066730 - System for illustrating true three dimensional images in an enclosed medium: A system for generating three-dimensional images within an enclosed volume wherein the images are oriented with X, Y, and a Z axes. The system includes a transparent housing capable of allowing a collimated light to pass therethrough, at least one laser for producing at least one beam of collimated light,... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20100066740 - Unified spectral and geospatial information model and the method and system generating it: This invention relates to a product called unified spectral and geospatial information model and the method and system that generates the model. Here, the unified spectral and geospatial information model comprises an airborne image of ground surface and the three-dimensional coordinate system associated with the image. The image in such... Agent: Zheng Wang

20100066741 - Deploying analytic functions: A method, system, and computer usable program product for deploying analytic functions are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A resource is identified in an analytic function specification. A set of input time series is identified for the analytic function specification. An analytic function instance corresponding to the analytic function specification... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20100066743 - Method for improved visualization of dynamic values displayed in a digital format: A method is provided for improved visualization of digitally displayed values that change rapidly, based on the human ability to perceive only a certain amount of change within a specific time-frame. The changes to the value are displayed so that, whenever possible, only one digit changes within the time-frame thought... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100066742 - Stylized prosody for speech synthesis-based applications: Described is a technology by which the prosody of synthesized speech may be changed by varying data associated with that speech. An interface displays a visual representation of synthesized speech as one or more waveforms, along with the corresponding text from which the speech was synthesized. The user may interact... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100066744 - Method and apparatus for triangle traversal process in graphic rasterization: A method and apparatus for traversing a triangle in graphic rasterization are provided. The method includes creating a bounding box which is the smallest rectangle consisting of pixels that covers the triangle; choosing a traversal start pixel for traversing the triangle based on the bounding box; choosing a traversal direction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100066746 - Widgetized avatar and a method and system of creating and using same: A widgetized avatar and a method and system of creating and using same is disclosed. The avatar includes computing code that provides for addition of the avatar as non-static content to at least two unique at least partially static web pages, and secondary computing code resident within the computing code,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20100066747 - Multi-chip rendering with state control: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide multiple graphics processor systems where specific graphics processors can be instructed to not perform certain rendering operations while continuing to receive state updates, where the state updates are included in the rendering commands for these rendering operations. One embodiment provides commands instructing a graphics... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20100066749 - Image forming apparatus with software components: An image forming apparatus includes an embed-information processing control unit configured to control, based on a first software component, embed-information processing for extracting embedded information or for embedding information with respect to image data output from a second software component, and an embed-information processing service unit configured to perform the... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20100066751 - Adjusting the display orientation of an image on a mobile terminal: A method of displaying a first image on a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying a first image and a second image overlaid on the first image on a display unit of the mobile terminal; and changing the orientation of the first image and the second image according to a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100066750 - Mobile virtual and augmented reality system: A user can create “virtual graffiti” (203)” that will be left for a particular device to view as part of an augmented-reality scene. The virtual graffiti will be assigned to a particular physical location or a part of an object that can be mobile. The virtual graffiti is then uploaded... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100066754 - Control method of backlight source and display device: A method for controlling a backlight for illuminating a transmissive display panel includes measuring an amount of current supplied to the transmissive display panel, and controlling brightness caused by the backlight source on the basis of the amount of the current. Further the method includes storing data of a threshold... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100066752 - Liquid crystal display device and image display method thereof: A liquid crystal panel displays an image from image signals. A backlight device is disposed on the back side of the liquid crystal panel, and is divided into a plurality of regions. The backlight device comprises light sources in each of the regions. The light sources are positioned to emit... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20100066753 - Visual effects screen: There is provided a special effects greenscreen having a plurality of marks dispersed thereon in a selected pattern, wherein each of the marks is embedded in the greenscreen by weaving, knitting, felting, crocheting, screening, stamping, embossing or similar method to integrate the mark into the greenscreen material. The pattern may... Agent: Stephen R. Burri

20100066755 - Color compositing using transparency groups: Methods and apparatus, including computer programs, for processing transparency attributes of digital graphics objects. The techniques result in the color compositing of an arbitrary structure of artwork elements defining the appearance of a page to produce a result color at any position on the page that is continuous with respect... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100066756 - Identification and analysis of lesions in medical imaging: A method for automated classification of curve patterns associated with dynamic image data of a lesion in a subject in order to determine characteristics of the lesion. The method comprising the steps of loading the image data into an electronic memory means, producing a plot of signal intensity profile, converting... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20100066757 - Image signal processing apparatus: The present invention relates to an image signal processing apparatus capable of reproducing the appearance of an image that is displayed on a PDP. In an image processing unit 1, as a process for an image signal so that an image obtained when the image signal is displayed on a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100066758 - System and method for automatic generation of image distributions: A method and system for automatically producing arrangements of two-dimensional extents in a computer-based editing or animation environment is presented. The method consists of defining a set of objects having two or more dimensions, automatically calculating and presenting an arrangement of said objects, and optionally iterating to produce alternative arrangements.... Agent: Patent Gc LLC C/o Cpa Global

20100066759 - System for extracting a fingerprint data from video/audio signals: A system for extracting a fingerprint data from video/audio signals, comprising a frame buffer for storing the video frame images, which accepts a new video frame image and discards the oldest video frame image in a first in first out (FIFO) fashion; a sub-sampler for sampling the video images, which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100066761 - Method of designating an object in an image: The present invention relates to a method of designating an object in an image. The method includes: designating a point inside the object in the image; segmenting the image into elementary regions; identifying an origin region to which the point belongs; constructing a graph of connectedness between the regions; calculating... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100066760 - Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2d and 3d objects: Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2D and 3D objects are disclosed. At least some embodiments include a computer-readable storage medium including software (executable on a processor) to symmetrize a modeled physical object that causes the processor to identify a plurality of clusters (each including a plurality of symmetric... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100066763 - Orienting displayed elements relative to a user: One or more elements are initially displayed on a display component of an electronic device. After the one or more elements have been displayed on the display component of the electronic device, an image of a user of the electronic device is captured, and an orientation of the electronic device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100066764 - Selective character magnification on touch screen devices: Selectively magnifying a set of characters on a touch screen of a computing device. Input is received from a user via the touch screen. A target character is identified, along with a plurality of other characters, based on the received input. In some embodiments, the plurality of other characters includes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100066769 - Display device, controller driver and driving method for display panel: A display device includes a display panel, an environmental sensor, a correction circuit and a driving circuit. The correction circuit is configured to generate a corrected gray-scale data on the basis of input gray-scale data. The driving circuit is configured to drive the display panel in response to the corrected... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100066765 - Display system and power control method thereof: A display system is provided The display system includes a power source unit for supplying power; a signal input unit for receiving a video signal from the outside; a video processor for converting a format of the video signals received from the signal input unit into a displayable format; a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20100066767 - Lcos integrated circuit and electronic device using the same: A liquid crystal on silicon integrated circuit (LCOS IC) and electronic device using the same is provided. The electronic device comprises an LCOS IC, a processor and a cooler. The LCOS IC comprising a temperature sensor embedded in the LCOS IC for sensing a temperature and outputting a temperature sensing... Agent: J C Patents

20100066766 - Method and apparatus for gamma correction of display signals: A method and apparatus for generating gamma corrected analogue voltages uses a first ladder resistor arrangement (34) to provides a first set of analogue voltage levels. A second set of voltages (x) is selected by programming a multiplexer arrangement (36) at the output of the first ladder resistor arrangement (34).... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100066768 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is provided. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) having an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes formed on the upper substrate, and a plurality of address electrodes formed on the lower substrate;... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20100066770 - Pulse width modulation display pixels with spatial manipulation: Systems and methods of producing images are provided. Data corresponding to a first set of display pixels is received. When it is determined that a transition occurs in the first set of display pixels, a position of at least one display pixel in the first set of display pixels is... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20100060547 - Display device and method for displaying images in a variable size display area: An image is displayed on a variable display area defined by two or more relatively moveable displays. A detector detects movement of the displays that varies the size of the display area. A processor determines the size of the new display area created by the relative movement of the displays... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20100060548 - Mobile terminal and operation method thereof: A mobile terminal and an operating method thereof are provided. The operating method includes providing a transparent flexible display having a first display region at the front of the transparent flexible display and a second display region at the rear of the transparent flexible display; displaying an image in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100060550 - System and apparatus for linked display devices: A system, display device and computer program product for controlling and coordinating a display device displaying information and other material in areas where foot traffic can be present. The system, display device, and computer program can display information, data, and images received from a network where the information, data and... Agent: Sabre Technical Services Corp.

20100060551 - Beam scanning-type display device, method, program and integrated circuit: A beam scanning-type display device used as a head-mounted display (HMD) or a head-up display (HUD) includes a light source (101) which emits a beam, a scanning unit (103) which performs scanning using the beam emitted from the light source (101), a deflecting unit (104) which deflects the beam used... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100060552 - Head mount display: A see-through-type head mount display includes a display unit which is configured to project an image light corresponding to display information on an eye of a viewer thus allowing the viewer to visually recognize an image corresponding to the image light while allowing an external light to pass therethrough. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100060553 - Led display utilizing freestanding epitaxial leds: High resolution light emitting diode (LED) displays can be formed from freestanding small epitaxial LED chips or small LED arrays. The addressing elements for the LED display can be active matrix backplane. The LED display may use isotropic and directional luminescent elements. The LED displays can be flat screen, fixed... Agent: Goldeneye Inc.

20100060554 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: In a display apparatus and a driving method thereof, image data corresponding to plural different positions of a display panel are added to each other, and a sum of the image data of a present frame is compared with a sum of the image data of a previous frame to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100060555 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: An LCD device adapted to apply an optimized luminance in correspondence with a brightness of each divisional region of image is disclosed. The LCD device uses dimming curves, which are provided differently from each other, for divisional regions which are divided from one frame and have different pixel numbers. Therefore,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100060556 - Display device and light adjusting method thereof: The invention provides a display device and a light adjusting method thereof capable of carrying out light adjustment effectively by the output control of a light source and, preferably, of effecting light adjustment according to color distribution of a displayed image. The display device of the invention that is capable... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100060557 - Data de-skew block device and method of de-skewing transmitted data: A source driver device includes a de-skew block device for receiving image data and clock signals, the de-skew block device has a receiver for receiving a clock signal and image data, a delay lock loop for generating a plurality of sub-clock signals, each having different delay times increasing in order,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20100060558 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate, gate lines disposed on the first insulation substrate and extending in a first direction, storage electrode lines disposed on the first insulation substrate and extending in the first direction, data lines extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100060559 - Display device, liquid crystal display device, and method for manufacturing display device: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20100060561 - Shift register circuit: Each stage of a shift register circuit has an input section (60) and an output section (62). The input section of each stage comprises an input section drive transistor (Tdrive) for coupling a first clocked power line voltage (Pn) to the output of the input section (60), an input section... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100060562 - Stray light compensation in ambient light sensor: A method is provided of compensating for stray light in a light sensor having a detection photosensor (7) and a reference photosensor (20), the reference photosensor (7) being for use in compensating for stray light falling on the detection photosensor (20). The method comprises using the reference photosensor (20) at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100060564 - E-paper display control of classified content based on e-paper conformation: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and controlling display of one or more portions of one or more display layers of the electronic paper assembly regarding... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20100060565 - E-paper display control of classified content based on e-paper conformation: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and one or more multi-layer display control modules configured to direct control of display of one or more portions of... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100060566 - Electronic book reading apparatus and updating method thereof: A method of updating content applied on an E-book, which includes: an electronic paper display, a first power supply, a RTC, a second power supply, a power manager, and a central processor. The method includes: keep time; generating a control signal for turning on the first power supply when it... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060563 - Electronic document reader: We describe an electronic document reading device having a front, display surface and a device rear surface, the device including a connector mounted on an edge of the device. The device includes a back panel having an exterior surface to provide the rear surface and an interior surface, wherein the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100060570 - Control system for navigating a principal dimension of a data space: Systems and methods are described for navigating through a data space. The navigating comprises detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector. The gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time and physical space.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20100060567 - Controlling device operation relative to a surface: Architecture for automatic switching between multiple modes in a handheld device such as a mouse based on the presence of specular light, or lack thereof. When applied to a presenter mouse, the architecture facilitates the automatic switching between mouse mode and presenter mode without manual intervention by the user. An... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100060568 - Curved surface input device with normalized capacitive sensing: A curved surface input device with normalized capacitive sensing is disclosed. The input device can normalize capacitive sensing through an overlay having a varying thickness, such as an overlay with a curved surface. The capacitive sensing normalization can be implemented in software, hardware or a combination of software and hardware.... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20100060571 - Kvm switch using a touch screen: A KVM switch system having a touch screen for interacting with multiple computers is disclosed. The KVM switch processes coordinate data from the touch screen and transfers the processed data to the controlled computer either as absolute mouse coordinate data or as relative mouse coordinate data depending on the operating... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20100060576 - Control system for navigating a principal dimension of a data space: Systems and methods are described for navigating through a data space. The navigating comprises detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector. The gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time and physical space.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20100060573 - Methods and apparatus for incremental prediction of input device motion: Methods and apparatus for incremental prediction of input device motion. In one embodiment, the input device comprises one or more sensors adapted to output motional data of the input device as measured at a certain period. A prediction of input device motion is generated based upon the last prediction and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/apple

20100060574 - Operating apparatus for hand-held electronic apparatus and method thereof: An operating apparatus for a hand-held electronic apparatus includes a motion sensor, an analog to digital converting module and a processing unit. The motion sensor is utilized for sensing a motion track of the hand-held electronic apparatus to generate an analog sensing signal. The analog to digital converting module is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100060578 - Optical pointing device with integrated optical components and related electronic apparatus: According to the claimed invention, an optical pointing device includes a cover having a transparent part, and a sensing component installed inside the cover. The sensing component includes a light emitting module for emitting light, and a light sensing module for sensing light transmitted from the transparent part. The optical... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100060577 - Position sensor arrangement: A position sensor arrangement that can determine the two-dimensional position of a variety of different movable devices, such as an electronic joystick. According to one embodiment, the position sensor arrangement includes two pair of magnetic sensing elements that are angularly offset or skewed with respect to one another in order... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20100060580 - Computer mouse with less friction: A mouse includes a casing with a curved top and at least one click pad is located on the curved top of a front end of the casing. A sensing means such as a roller or an optical sensor is connected to an underside of the casing and a plurality... Agent: Phillip Liu

20100060582 - Cradle, mouse and mouse unit: A cradle of the present invention includes a support portion and a holding portion that is formed on the support portion as a depression with a shape corresponding to part of a mouse. The holding portion of the cradle includes an inclined surface that is a flat surface over which... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100060579 - Power management device for a wireless input device and related wireless input device: A power management device for a wireless input device includes a sensor, built on a housing of the wireless input device, for sensing a distance between the housing and an object to generate a sensing result, and a control module, coupled to the sensor, for controlling an operating mode of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100060581 - System and method for updating live weather presentations: A computer-implemented method of preparing live weather presentations including preparing a computer readable run-down describing graphical elements and associated data links inserting current weather data into the graphical elements to be used as a graphical portion of a live weather presentation. The method further includes, at first intervals, using the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20100060583 - Input devices operable by reflected light: The light receiving areas can be arranged and assigned functions to perform keyboard and mouse functions. Additional touch/pressure-triggered switch can be included to assist selection of keys. This invention enables fast and touchless operation of keyboard and mouse that avoid repetitive strain injuries and pains. It also enables fast and... Agent: Yong Yan

20100060587 - Handheld device with multiple displays: A handheld device includes a plurality of display units and at least one processor coupled to the plurality of display units. The processor is configured to generate output at least a portion of which is displayed on at least one of the display units. At least two of the display... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100060589 - Advanced receive channel architecture: This relates to an architecture of a receive channel circuit used during both a spectrum analysis phase and a touch panel detection phase. Various components of the receive channel can be used during both the spectrum analysis phase and the touch panel detection phase. For example, a plurality of digital... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100060592 - Data transmission and reception using optical in-lcd sensing: Data transmission and reception through optical in-LCD sensing panels is provided. The transmission/reception can be a communication in which data is transmitted by displaying, on display pixels of the panel, a communication image encoding the data, and data is received by capturing, with EM sensors embedded in the panel, a... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100060596 - Display device with touch screen: A display device with touch sensor input has a touch sensor structure on top of the display layer. The touch sensor structure includes a first and second array of electrodes, the electrodes in the first array being non-parallel to the electrodes in the second array. The first and second arrays... Agent: Liu & Liu

20100060606 - Hard tap: The use of variable-pressure taps in computer interfaces is disclosed in which tap inputs cause different functions to execute depending on the pressure applied by the tap. A hard tap is interpreted when a user makes rapid contact with the input surface, exceeding a threshold pressure within a threshold time,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100060601 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device having a touch panel and a front window which can enhance reliability thereof and facilitates repair thereof is provided. The touch panel and the front window are mounted on a liquid crystal display device using a thermoplastic adhesive material. Electronic parts are arranged on a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100060597 - Method and apparatus for displaying and selecting icons on a touch screen: A touch screen including a display unit configured to display a plurality of icons. The touch screen may include a detection unit configured to detect a touch in one of a plurality of touch detection regions of the display unit wherein the touch detection regions comprise an icon portion on... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20100060599 - Method and device to search for and execute content using a touch screen: A method and device to search for and execute content are provided. The method of searching for and executing content includes displaying at least one content icon, and identifying, if an approach to one of the at least one content icon is detected, a content icon of a position at... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100060594 - Method for operating a reproduction apparatus via a user interface having touch elements: A method for operating a reproduction apparatus via a user interface having a plurality of touch elements enables users to conveniently and efficiently locate desired portions of a file. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes detecting a first input to a first one of the touch elements (52),... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100060595 - Mobile terminal and method of switching identity module therein: A mobile terminal includes a plurality of identity modules, a touch screen configured to display a list including a plurality of service items, the list indicating an assigned identity module, of the plurality of identity modules, for each of the plurality of service items, and a controller configured to switch... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100060591 - Multiple stimulation phase determination: Determination of phases of multiple stimulation signals to be simultaneously applied to a touch sensor panel is disclosed. A matrix may be determined that is invertible and has a gain greater than one, where each row of the matrix may represent a single step among multiple steps needed to compute... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100060593 - Phase compensation for multi-stimulus controller: Determining a compensated phase matrix for a multi-stimulus demodulation process is provided. A first drive line of a multi-stimulus sensing system is selected, and a stimulation signal is transmitted on the selected drive line. A channel gain resulting from the stimulation signal is measured from a received sense signal resulting... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100060605 - Pressure sensitive controls: The use of pressure-sensitive controls is disclosed in which controls respond differently to different pressure applied by a stylus on a digitizer. Users interacting with displayed controls may modify the speed, increment, or other property of the control by pressing harder or softer. Devices that allow for the input of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100060588 - Temporally separate touch input: A method of processing touch input includes recognizing a first touch input, and then, after conclusion of the first touch input, recognizing a second touch input temporally separate from the first touch input. The temporally separate combination of the first touch input and the second touch input is then translated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100060603 - Touch panel, and electro-optic apparatus and electronic device having the touch panel: A touch panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; an annular seal material that adheres peripheries of the first substrate and the second substrate to each other so as to set a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; first seal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100060602 - Touch screen, touch panel and display device: Each detection column wiring is constituted by a set of a first metal wiring having a zigzag pattern and a second metal wiring having a structure axisymmetric with the first metal wiring about a column direction as an axis, wherein the first metal wiring is constituted by first sloped portions... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100060607 - User interface mouse with touchpad responsive to gestures and multi-touch: A computer interface device has a housing configured with a first sensor for detecting a position change of the computer interface device on a surface, a touch pad configured with the housing for generating touchpad signals, and a wireless link to transmit the first pair of parameters and the touchpad... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100060608 - Correction of parasitic capacitance effect in touch sensor panels: Compensation of pixels included in a touch sensor panel that generate erroneous readings (so called “negative pixels”) due to a poor grounding condition of the object touching the touch sensor panel is disclosed herein. To compensate for the erroneous readings, sense lines of the touch sensor panel can include reverse... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20100060610 - Sensing circuit for capacitive touch panel: A sensing circuit for a capacitive touch panel is disclosed. By adding a path for a noise to pass through, the noise is differentially processed through two paths which have the same electrical conditions with each other. The noise is then decreased significantly, and a sensing signal can be detected... Agent: Liu & Liu

20100060609 - Touched position detection method for touch panel: In a touched position detection method for a touch panel for detecting a touched position, based on measured values by a plurality of sensors, presence of a touch is determined when a measured value by a sensor exceeds a touch threshold. As a touch threshold, a value which cannot be... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100060612 - Opto-touch screen: There is provided an opto-touch screen including: an opto-touch panel including an infrared phosphor material emitting light when exposed to infrared light; a sensor part disposed at a side of the opto-touch panel to detect the light emitted from the opto-touch panel.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100060613 - Size/scale orientation determination of a pointer in a camera-based touch system: A touch system includes a touch surface and at least two cameras associated with the touch surface. The at least two cameras acquire images of the touch surface from different locations and having overlapping fields of view. A digital signal processor is associated with each camera. The digital signal processors... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20100060614 - Tri-axis foot controller: A novel control device for a personal computer which is manipulated by a user's feet. The control device is manipulated by application of the appropriate pressure to the control device. At any one time, the control device may be manipulated such that the control device moves in three distinct directions:... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20100060615 - Digital photo frame and method of displaying image therein: A method for displaying image is provided. The method includes: selecting an image file; reading property values of the selected image file, and displaying the property values of the selected image file on the display; selecting one of the property values in response to a select operation via the input... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060617 - Flat panel display: A display includes an array of pixel circuits and data drivers to drive the pixel circuits. The data drivers include a first data driver to receive pixel data according to a first clock frequency and to forward some of the pixel data to a second data driver according to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100060618 - Image display device and portable terminal device: An image display device includes a light source which emits laser light; an optical system which is operable to switch between a direct viewing mode of modulating the laser light and displaying the modulated light on a display section, and a projection mode of modulating the laser light and projecting... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20100060619 - Gate drive device for display device and display device having the same: A gate drive portion for a display device including multiple pixels having first and second sub-pixels includes a first shift register generating a first output signal in response to a first gate clock signal, a second shift register generating a second output signal in response to a second gate clock... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100060620 - Display system and electrical appliance: A display system in which the luminance of light-emitting elements in a light-emitting device is adjusted based on information on an environment. A sensor obtains information on an environment as an electrical signal. A CPU converts, based on comparison data set in advance, the information signal into a correction signal... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100060622 - Cmos linear voltage/current dual-mode imager: A CMOS image sensor that is capable of both voltage- and current-mode operations selects the mode based on the position of mode switches. Each pixel on the imager has a single transistor acting as either source follower for voltage readout, or transconductor for current readout. The two modes share the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100060623 - Drive method for an electrophoretic cell and an electrophoretic device: The present invention relates to a drive method for an electrophoretic cell and a device adapted to implement the method. The cell comprises a first storage electrode (24), a second storage electrode (22), a first target area electrode (28), a second target area electrode (30), a first type of particle... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100060621 - Source driver device and display device having the same: A source driver device for driving a display panel includes a gamma voltage generator having a storage element and a plurality of gamma digital-to-analog converters, a data digital-to-analog converter coupled to the gamma voltage generator, and a receiver for receiving input display data from a data bus, for parsing the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20100060624 - Display unit, display unit driving method and display system: A display unit including a capacitor, a pixel and a switch is provided. The capacitor is charged or discharged in response to a voltage difference between a drain control signal and a common voltage signal. The pixel displays in response to the voltage difference between the drain control signal and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100060625 - Plasma display device, and plasma display panel driving method: Provided to stabilize generation of address discharge and improve gradation characteristics of display images are the following elements: a plasma display panel; a sustain pulse generating circuit; and a ramp voltage generating circuit including a first ramp voltage generating circuit, a second ramp voltage generating circuit, and a switching circuit.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100060628 - In-plane switching electrophoretic colour display: The invention relates to an electrophoretic color display panel, the display panel comprising at least one pixel (10, 12), the at least one pixel (10, 12) comprising a layer cavity (18ab) containing a suspension with a first set of charged particles (24a) having a first optical property and a second... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100060627 - Plasma display device and driving method of plasma display panel: A scan electrode driving circuit applies a first ramp waveform rising from a first potential (Vi1) to a second potential (Vi2) to a plurality of scan electrodes (SC) in a first half period within a setup period of at least one sub-field of a plurality of sub-fields, and applies a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100060630 - Graphics processing systems: If it is determined that the bounding volume representation 4 of the object will be completely occluded in the scene (e.g. by a foreground object 2), then the individual primitives making up the complex object are not processed. This can save significantly on processing time and resources for the scene... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100060629 - Graphics-processing architecture based on approximate rendering: A graphics processing circuit for rendering three-dimensional graphics data is disclosed. The circuit includes pipelined graphics processing stages, wherein each of two or more of the stages is configured to process at least one of graphics primitives, vertices, tiles, and pixels, according to a stage-specific error budget. Depending on its... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100060633 - Methods and systems for performing differential radiography: The present invention relates to a characterisation system (100) for characterising an object (104) comprising a basic material and additional structural features. The system (100) comprises at least one irradiation source (102) for generating an irradiation beam for irradiating the object (104) to be characterised and at least one detector... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100060635 - Assembly-based parametric modeler: Presently disclosed is a process and system for assembly-based parametric modeling having a single design environment in which the parts, components, and assemblies thereof may be designed concurrently. In embodiments of the present invention, every assembly has a deterministic parametric history supporting both top-down and bottom-up assembly design methodologies. Top-down... Agent: Paul E. Lewkowicz, P.C.

20100060634 - Ray tracing a three-dimensional scene using a hierarchical data structure: Ray tracing a three-dimensional scene made up of geometric primitives that are spatially partitioned into a hierarchical data structure. One example embodiment is a method for ray tracing a three-dimensional scene made up of geometric primitives that are spatially partitioned into a hierarchical data structure. In this example embodiment, the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100060639 - Animatable graphics lighting analysis: One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for displaying lighting values associated with a 3-D graphics model by superimposing an overlay grid with lighting values on the 3-D graphics model. A software rendering engine computes lighting values for each frame that includes the 3-D graphics model, where each... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100060638 - Animatable graphics lighting analysis reporting: One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for displaying lighting values associated with a 3-D graphics model by superimposing an overlay grid with lighting values on the 3-D graphics model. A software rendering engine computes lighting values for each frame that includes the 3-D graphics model, where each... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100060637 - Method for reducing network bandwidth by delaying shadow ray generation: The present invention provides methods and apparatus in a ray tracing image processing system to reduce the amount of information passed between processing elements. According to embodiments of the invention, in response to a ray-primitive intersection, a first processing element in the image processing system may generate a portion of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100060640 - Interactive atmosphere - active environmental rendering: In the field of rendering a three dimensional model into a two dimensional graphical representation, the resources available to a general purpose computer can be used to efficiently render the scene. The high speed/low computer resource with which the rendering is performed results from utilizing different inputs to the rendering... Agent: Kaplan Gilman & Pergament LLP

20100060641 - Video and graphics system with square graphics pixels: A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as ITU-R 601 compliant images such as... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100060643 - Algorithm for drawing directed acyclic graphs: A system and method for drawing directed acyclic graphs is disclosed. In particular, an algorithm, as implemented in a method and system, to aesthetically layout directed acyclic graphs is presented. The algorithm includes methods to reduce the number of edge crossings and increase the number of straight edges in such... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100060644 - Method and system for quantification of tumoral vascularization: The invention relates to a method and system for processing a test signal in medical domain comprising following steps:—acquiring (110, 120, 130) an input digital signal F(t) function of time t in the form of two-dimensional data (t, F(t)), said signal F(t) resulting from the excitation, within a test substrate,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100060645 - Modifying a chart: Embodiments are provided for modifying a chart. Chart elements are pictorially presented to a user for use by the user in modifying a generated standard chart. The chart elements may be presented to the user in a chart ribbon.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100060642 - Techniques for drawing curved edges in graphs: A system and method for drawing curved edges in graphs is disclosed. The system and method implement a heuristic algorithm to draw curved edges in graphs using Bezier curves. The algorithm assumes that every pair of nodes has a unique edge between them. It also assumes that the graph is... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100060647 - Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication: Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian (end)

20100060646 - Arbitrary fractional pixel movement: A technique is provided for displaying pixels of an image at arbitrary subpixel positions. In accordance with aspects of this technique, interpolated intensity values for the pixels of the image are derived based on the arbitrary subpixel location and an intensity distribution or profile. Reference to the intensity distribution provides... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20100060649 - Avoiding non-intentional separation of avatars in a virtual world: A method for avoiding non-intentional separation of avatars in a virtual world may include detecting a first avatar seeking to enter a first location and determining if a second avatar is related to the first avatar based on a first predetermined rule. The method may also include determining that the... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20100060648 - Method for determining valued excursion corridors in virtual worlds: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and a data processing system determine an excursion corridor within a virtual environment. A time-stamped snapshot of a location of at least one avatar within the virtual universe is recorded. An avatar tracking data structure is then updated. The avatar tracking data structure... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100060651 - Pipelined image processing engine: The present invention related to processing image frames through a pipeline of effects by breaking the image frames into multiple blocks of image data. The example method includes generating a plurality of blocks from each frame, processing each block through a pipeline of effects in a predefined consecutive order, and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100060652 - Graphics rendering system: A graphics processing solution wherein operator-generated commands concerning a data structure describing a graphics scene are received via an user interface associated with a client module. Based on the commands, the client module produces at least one set of data resources and at least one instruction set. Each resource in... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20100060653 - Methods for setting a pixel clock frequency: A method of setting a pixel clock frequency for a display of an information handling system (IHS) is disclosed whereby the method includes detecting an identifier associated with a wireless card operable for use with the IHS. The method also includes selecting a timing descriptor, the timing descriptor associated with... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20100060654 - Video processor and memory management method thereof: Video processors and memory management methods thereof are provided, wherein the video processor is controlled by a central processing unit, and is coupled to a system memory to receive a macroblock. The video processor has two local memories, a control circuit and an image processing unit. The control circuit divides... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100060655 - Mobile device and method for displaying thumbnails on the mobile device: A method for displaying thumbnails on a mobile device includes allocating at least two buffers in a storage system of the mobile device, where the at least two buffers comprise a displayed thumbnail buffer and a current thumbnail buffer. Indices of the thumbnails on are displayed on a display screen... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060656 - Electronic apparatus with quick response time and method thereof: A method with quick response time applied to the electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes: providing a storage configured for storing a plurality of images; providing a cache memory configured for temporarily storing decoded images; invoking the images that are previously to and next to the currently displayed image... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060657 - Digital photo frame for displaying image and method thereof: A digital photo frame capable of displaying images is provided. The digital photo frame includes a display, a user input unit, a memory, and a processor. The memory is configured for storing images, types of frames, and display modes, wherein each of the display modes defines a total display area... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060658 - Information processing apparatus and program: An information processing apparatus is provided that includes an illuminance detection unit to detect brightness and output an illuminance value corresponding to the detected brightness, a luminance control unit to derive a luminance set value for controlling a light emission signal regulating luminance of a light source based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100060660 - Dithering method and apparatus: A dithering method prevents the gray level saturation in a gray level region having high luminance and expresses all gray levels. The dithering method includes performing the temporal/spatial compensation on input data, generating dithering data by adding a head bit to the data on which the temporal/spatial compensation is performed,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100060661 - Physically present game camera: A system and method for viewing objects within a virtual environment are disclosed. A virtual camera and an object exist within the virtual environment. The camera is focused on the object such that the user of the virtual environment sees the object from the perspective of the camera. The virtual... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20100060663 - Image display device and method of displaying image: An image display device of the present invention comprises: a transmitter; a display controller; and a display including scanning lines allocated with line numbers; wherein the transmitter executes (A) outputting of an image signal added with a line number, the display controller executes: (a) displaying of an image to a... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20100060662 - Visual identifiers for virtual world avatars: In one embodiment, a method for applying body modifications to an avatar in a virtual world environment is defined. The method includes an operation to detect movement of the avatar into a facility that is a virtual world representation of a body modification facility. In another operation the method requests... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20100060664 - Mobile device with an inclinometer: A method is disclosed that includes detecting a change in an inclination at a panel of an electronic device. The panel has a display surface. The method also includes detecting a rotation of the panel from a first orientation to a second orientation. The method also includes automatically redrawing an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100060665 - Electronic apparatus with image adjusting function and method thereof: A method for adjusting image displayed on an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes the step of: obtaining and comparing the aspect ratios of the to-be-displayed image and the display, determining whether the aspect ratio of the to-be-displayed image matches the aspect ratio of the display; adjusting the to-be-displayed... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060666 - Zooming graphical user interface: A method of presenting a hierarchically-organized collection of objects includes displaying a first-level set of first-level objects in a prominent scale; and while displaying the first-level set of first-level objects in the prominent scale, displaying one or more second-level sets of second-level objects in a diminished scale. Each second-level set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100060669 - Brightness-adjusting device and method for display screens: A brightness-adjusting device and method for a display screen are described. Depending upon the brightness of ambient light, the display screen is either brightened or darkened and powered by either a solar cell or battery.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100060673 - Display device using movement of particles: A method of driving a display device uses a first display addressing mode, in which the display is addressed sequentially in rows, and wherein a first image is displayed with a first contrast ratio between the lightest and darkest pixels, and with a brightest pixel output state, a darkest pixel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100060672 - Liquid crystal display system and method: A display system (1) for generating a picture in accordance with image information (10) derived from a video signal has a light modulation device (20), an illumination device (30) and a control circuit (40) for driving both devices. The algorithm implemented in the control circuit (40) distributes the image information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100060670 - Method and apparatus of color adjustment for a display device: A color adjustment method for a display device includes receiving a composite video signal including a first chrominance signal and a first luminance signal, generating a hue signal and a saturation signal according to at least the first chrominance signal, generating an intensity gain parameter according to the hue signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100060668 - Method and device for controlling brightness of display element: A method and device for controlling the backlight brightness of a display element are provided. The display method utilizes horizontal scan frequency and vertical scan frequency of an image to obtain a display mode of the image by referring to a scan-frequency list. When the display mode of the image... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100060676 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal display panel and a drive section performing divisional drive operation which includes first and second drive operations. The first drive operation performs a driving process with a first drive voltage higher than an original application voltage, and the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100053027 - Multiple monitors: A multiple monitor computer system for facilitating user multitasking via a plurality of laptop monitors or PC monitors is disclosed. In one embodiment, a two-head or three-head laptop computer is disclosed wherein the second or third laptop monitor is connected to a swivel on a rise-up component of the laptop... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20100053028 - Seamless display apparatus having a plurality of panels: A seamless display apparatus having a plurality of panels connected side by side is disclosed. A backlight module disposed under the panels emits a light and perpendicularly transmits the light onto the panels. The region between two adjacent panels is invisible without any light passing therethrough. A light-pervious hollow tube... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100053029 - Mobile projected sets: One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a mobile set configured to include one or more projection devices to display a media presentation to a viewer. The mobile set may be configured to follow a fixed path or may move through autonomous navigation. In one... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP On Behalf Of Disney Enterprises, Inc.

20100053030 - Method and apparatus to process display and non-display information: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a substrate including a display information optical path to receive display information and includes a non-display information optical path to receive non-display information. In some embodiments, the display information optical path includes a display information optical power. In some embodiments, the non-display information optical... Agent: Viksnins Harris & Padys Pllp

20100053031 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device, in which the position of the view point of a viewer who sees the display region on a substrate is fixed to a predetermined position within the display region in a plan view, includes a first color filter which overlaps a first pixel region disposed at the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100053032 - Touch detecting circuit for bistable electronic display: A touch detecting circuit of the present invention is provided between a substrate and a bistable display film of a display. The touch detecting circuit includes a plurality of first electrodes along a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes along a second direction, and an insulating layer between the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100053036 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention can drive a panel at a high speed, and reduce a brightness difference which may be generated in block driving, to thereby improve picture quality of a display image.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100053037 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel that includes a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and a data electrode; and a scan driver that supplies the scan electrode with a first driving voltage serving as a reference voltage, a second driving voltage... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100053038 - Color display and method for producing the same: A color display including a plurality of pixels on a substrate, each pixels being area-divided into plural sub-pixels including at least two sub-pixels that each emit colored light of different wavelengths and a white sub-pixel, wherein the at least two sub-pixels and the white sub-pixel each have at least an... Agent: Solaris Intellectual Property Group, PLLC

20100053042 - Display device: A plurality of data signal lines each of which is connected to at least one pixel circuit in one pixel circuit column and is not connected to the pixel circuits of other pixel circuit columns are provided to one pixel circuit column, and the pixel circuits in the pixel circuit... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100053039 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a plurality of pixels respectively including a plurality of light-emitting elements, a comparing unit for comparing input image signals during a plurality of continuous frames for each pixel and determining whether the input image signals are repeated, a signal converter for converting the input image signal... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100053040 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes: horizontal scan lines; vertical scan lines; an electro-optical element disposed at each of positions where the horizontal scan lines and the vertical scan lines intersect and selectively turned on based on a video signal and a vertical scan signal; a defect information storing section that stores... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100053041 - Pixel circuit, light emitting display device and driving method thereof: A pixel circuit including at least a light emitting element, and a thin film transistor that supplies to the light emitting element a first current controlling a gray scale according to luminance-current characteristics of the light emitting element, wherein the thin film transistor has a back gate electrode, at least... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100053043 - Color display and method for producing the same: A color display using an organic electroluminescence element, includes, on a substrate, plural pixels each being area-divided into plural sub-pixels including at least two sub-pixels that each emit colored light of different wavelengths and a white sub-pixel, in which the white sub-pixel is further area-divided into at least two sub-sub-pixels... Agent: Solaris Intellectual Property Group, PLLC

20100053044 - Organic light emitting diode display and method for manufacturing the same: An organic light emitting diode display panel includes a transparent substrate on which a matrix array of pixels is formed with each pixel including an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The OLEDS include light emitting regions sandwiched between pixel electrodes or anodes made of transparent conductive material and a common... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100053046 - Backlight device and image display apparatus using the same: In a backlight device that performs an area control, part of a plurality of light emitting sections is configured based on a relationship where, between at least two light emitting sections controlled by a first control unit, at least one light emitting section controlled by a second control unit that... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20100053047 - Display device and driving method of the same: A display device includes a data line, a first and second pixel rows and a first and second gate control lines all formed on a substrate. The first pixel row includes a plurality of pixels each containing two neighboring first sub-pixel and second sub-pixel, the first sub-pixel is coupled to... Agent: Lanway Ipr Services

20100053050 - Display device substrate and liquid crystal display device having the same: The display device substrate according to the present invention is arranged so that: a source line is provided on an area on which a pixel electrode is not provided, and a gap is provided between the source line and the pixel electrode, and a black matrix (light shielding film) which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100053049 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal panel, a gate chip on film (COF) disposed at a side of a side surface of the liquid crystal panel, side-edge-type backlights having a light emitting diode disposed on left and right side surfaces of the liquid crystal panel, and a cover... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100053051 - display for high brightness conditions: A device including a housing and a display provided on a surface of the housing. The device also includes a light sensor provided on the surface of the housing, and a controller coupled to the display and the sensor. The controller is configured to change a display mode of the... Agent: Snyder, Clark, Lesch & Chung, LLP

20100053052 - Liquid crystal display device: In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal display device is disclosed, each pixel includes first and second subpixels, each of which includes a storage capacitor. Storage capacitor counter voltages applied independently to the storage capacitor counter electrodes of the first and second subpixels are varied within each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100053053 - Display panel: A display panel has a display area and a peripheral circuit area next to the display area. The display panel includes a number of pixels, a first signal line, a second signal line, and a third signal line. The pixels are arranged in array in the display area. The first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100053054 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a gate-off voltage generator including a temperature compensation unit which includes a constant voltage output device and a temperature-sensing device and outputting a gate-off voltage whose level varies according to a change in ambient temperature; a clock generator receiving a gate-on voltage and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100053056 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a gate driver, a data driver, a display panel, a power supply and a common voltage line. The gate driver outputs a gate signal, and the data driver outputs a data signal. The display panel includes a display area displaying images in response to the gate... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100053058 - Display device: A display device in which a non-display region where drain lines, gate lines and pixels are not formed is formed at a portion within a display region which is constituted of a mass of the pixels, drain route-around lines and gate route-around lines are formed by routing the drain lines... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100053057 - Driver integrated circuit chip and display substrate of flat panel display: A driver integrated circuit chip adapted to electrically couple with a fan-out wiring area includes a side and a plurality of output pins formed at the side. The output pins includes a first pin group and a second pin group. The first pin group is electrically coupled to the fan-out... Agent: Lanway Ipr Services

20100053059 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including first sub-pixels for charging a data of a polarity opposite to a prior horizontal period, and second sub-pixels for charging a data of a polarity identical to a prior horizontal period; a data driver for driving a plurality... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100053061 - Adaptive backlight control and contrast enhancement: A transform function represented by at least n points that define n-1 regions is determined based at least in part on a first set of values associated with a display frame and a maximum average contrast function. The n points can be determined in response to a change in an... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100053063 - Display device and illumination control method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display device including: a video display unit; a housing configured to accommodate the video display unit; an illumination device provided in the housing; a power indicator provided on the housing and having a first state and a second... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100053066 - Information processing apparatus, and image display apparatus and method: An apparatus includes a unit computing, at each of positions on a target, first products of first reference values for light sources and factors for light sources, and a first sum of the first products corresponding to the light sources, and estimating, at each of the positions, the first sum... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20100053062 - Intelligent row- and multicolor backlight-modulation lcd device and a method thereof: The present invention discloses a single-level driver is programmed to generate a plurality of segment voltage signals. A multicolor backlight modulation device receives the segment voltage signals and modulating a portion of the segment voltage signals to generate a common voltage signal and at least two synchronous color-separation backlight driving... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100053068 - Bendable electronic device status information system and method: A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and sending one or more bendable electronic device physical status related information portions to the bendable electronic device based upon the obtaining of the first information. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings,... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053067 - E-paper display control of classified content based on e-paper conformation: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition of first information associated with one or more conformations of one... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053072 - Application control based on flexible interface conformation sequence status: A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interface and coordinating the one or more changes in one or... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053078 - Input unit, movement control system and movement control method using the same: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a movement control method and system of a terminal input unit having a plurality of protrusions. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a process and an apparatus for controlling each protrusion so that the input unit forms interface modes used for... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100053070 - Multi-dimensional optical control device and a controlling method thereof: A multi-dimensional optical control device and a method thereof are provided. A movable light source can be moved due to an external action, and produce a light beam. A lens coupled to the light source is to focus the light beam. A sensor is used to sense a spot formed... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100053077 - Notebook computer with force feedback for gaming: A notebook computer with force feedback for gaming is provided. A vibrating plate is disposed on a host, and a vibration generating device is disposed at the bottom of the vibrating plate to generate vibration when a computer game is executed. Thus, a user playing the computer game may feel... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100053081 - Display device and method of controlling the display device: A mobile terminal is provided that includes a first display module to receive a touch signal and a second display module configured to be extensible. An image and a pointer may be displayed on the second display module if the second display is ejected from the mobile terminal. The pointer... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20100053083 - Portable devices and controlling method thereof: A portable electronic device including a first input/output unit including a monostable display element, a second input/output unit including a bistable display element, a main setting unit configured to selectively set either one of the first and second input/output units as a main input/output unit and the other one of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100053082 - Remote controls for electronic display board: Techniques for interacting with an electronic display board are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a remote controller includes a laser generator, several motion sensors, a Micro Central Unit has data process capability and memory inside to store programs and a transceiver or a transmitter. A laser beam from the laser... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20100053084 - Collapsible mouse with pinch-risk solution: Architecture for a collapsible mouse having a hinge with an anti-pinch component. For example, the anti-pinch component can be a sheath that covers the hinge area between a main body portion and a tail portion of the collapsible mouse. The anti-pinch component can also include a hinge having hinge portions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100053085 - Control system for use within a sterile environment: A system for controlling multiple computerized medical devices includes a passive sterile mouse and an active mouse-sensing base for sensing a position of the passive sterile mouse and generating a control signal for controlling at least one computerized medical device. A sterile mouse pad is selectively positioned over the active... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100053086 - Trackball module structure: A trackball module structure is provided. In the structure, a Hall IC is integrated in a flexible printed circuit, and the integrated structure and a trackball device are disposed on the base to be located. Afterwards, a lid is used to fix the integrated structure and the trackball device to... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100053088 - Apparatus and method for adjusting a key range of a keycapless keyboard: An apparatus and method for adjusting a key range of a keycapless keyboard are provided. The apparatus includes a keyboard, a controller, and a manager. The keyboard is comprised of a touch screen. The controller determines whether revision of a user's input value through the keyboard has occurred. The manager... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100053087 - Touch sensors with tactile feedback: Touch sensors with one or more piezoelectric elements and devices containing such touch sensors are presented. The touch sensor contains keys that are independently actuated. Contact with a key provides tactile feedback through the piezoelectric element to the user. Each key provides an individual tactile feedback pattern that is dependent... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100053097 - Capacitive touch sensor system: A method of matrix sensing using delay-based capacitance sensing, including using X-axis lines as active lines for capacitance measurements and using Y-axis lines as a disturbance to identify the location of a touch in a key matrix is disclosed. A sensing signal is applied to the X-axis lines, and a... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100053092 - Control method for touch screen device: A control method for a touch screen device is provided. The control method comprises the steps of: enabling an active mode of a touch panel; defining at least one active area on the touch panel; inputting a touch input into any one position on the touch panel; determining whether the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100053109 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: To provide an information processing apparatus and information processing method capable of correcting a contact or proximity position to be closer to a user-intended contact or proximity position with high accuracy. It includes a calculation unit 163 that 3-value processes the proximity value to detect a first region and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100053091 - Method and systems for identifying objects on a touch-sensitive device: A method of identifying objects on a touch-sensitive device comprises scanning a plurality of “m” traces of the touch-sensitive device, m being a positive integer, obtaining a count value of each of the “m” traces, wherein an x-th trace has a count value ax, x being an index number from... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100053095 - Method capable of preventing mistakenly triggering a touch panel: To perform palm rejection, scan a plurality of areas on a touch panel to detect a plurality of triggered areas within the plurality of areas. Then detect which of the triggered areas are next to one another to determine a plurality of blocks. If the plurality of blocks contain a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100053099 - Method for reducing latency when using multi-touch gesture on touchpad: A method for executing single and multi-touch gestures that will be immediately recognized by the touchpad without having to wait for any portion of the gesture to be performed, thereby eliminating latency that can be caused by the touchpad or touchscreen having to wait for a portion of the gesture... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20100053094 - Method of operating a multi-point touch-sensitive system: A computer-implemented method in connection with a multi-touch detection system is disclosed. The multi-touch detection system includes a touch-sensitive device, a microcontroller coupled to the touch sensitive device, and an electronic application coupled to the microcontroller. The touch-sensitive device has multiple electrically isolated conductive regions. In response to detecting multiple... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20100053090 - Methods and apparatus for detecting user's touch on a touch panel: A method for detecting a user's touch on a touch panel includes: deriving a plurality of geometric differences of a first direction of the touch panel, wherein each of the geometric differences of the first direction represents a difference between respective coupling amounts at two locations of a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100053102 - Motion sensor data processing and interface and method thereof: A motion sensor comprises a touch screen, and a motion indictor proximate to the touch screen, the touch screen displaying: an adjusting bar indicating a threshold at which motion is detected, and a level bar indicating an amount of currently measured motion.... Agent: Rg & Associates

20100053093 - Multi-point touch-sensitive system: A multi-touch detection system includes a touch-sensitive device, a microcontroller coupled to the touch sensitive device, and an electronic application coupled to the microcontroller. The touch-sensitive device includes multiple electrically isolated conductive regions and the conductive regions are configured to detect multiple contacts from a user simultaneously and generate respective... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20100053100 - Navigation display system: A navigation display system includes a navigation device, a projection module and a remote-controlled module. The navigation device has a screen. The projection module is pivotally connected with and rotatable relative to the navigation device to project an image displayed on the screen onto a projection screen. The remote-controlled module... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100053101 - Optical film, laminate and touch panel: The optical film 1 has a transparent base material layer 12. An undercoat layer 14 is laminated on at least one surface of the transparent base material layer 12. A transparent hard coat layer 16 is laminated on the undercoat layer 14. An anti-reflection layer 18 is laminated on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100053108 - Portable devices and controlling method thereof: A portable electronic device including a first input/output unit including a monostable display element and configured to reproduce multimedia content, a second input/output unit a bistable display element and configured to reproduce an electronic document, a first controller configured to control the first input/output unit, a second controller configured to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100053106 - Sensing circuit for touch panel: A sensing circuit for a touch panel is disclosed. The sensing circuit includes a switching device, a passive device and a sensing device. The switching device receives an input signal and outputs the input signal according to a control signal. The passive device couples to the switching device. The sensing... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100053110 - Simultaneous input across multiple applications: One or more users may interact simultaneously with different applications on the same device through an input system such as a touch-sensitive display screen. Simultaneous user input may be detected by a multiple input system and subsequently transmitted to an application using a single transmission frame. An application corresponding to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100053105 - Song writing method and apparatus using touch screen in mobile terminal: A song writing method and apparatus using a touch screen in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The song writing method includes: displaying, upon activation of a song writing mode, an onscreen musical keyboard of an octave on the touch screen; identifying, when a key of the onscreen musical keyboard is... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20100053096 - Terminal, controlling method thereof and recordable medium for the same: A mobile terminal is provided including a touchscreen and a controller. The controller is configured to display, on the touchscreen, a moving picture and a subset of a plurality of key frame pictures for the moving picture.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100053103 - Touch screen display: A touch screen display includes; a first substrate, a lower sensor electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate disposed substantially opposite to the first substrate, a sensor spacer disposed on the second substrate and aligned with the lower sensor electrode, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100053104 - User interface method: The present invention relates to a user interface method of a terminal, more specifically to a user interface method of a terminal that can recognize the track of a touch stroke by a user and that can process the user command on the basis of this touch track. A user... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100053113 - Electromagnetic stylus for operating a capacitive touch panel: When a user moves an electromagnetic stylus to a capacitive touch panel, a transceiving winding will detect the frequency of the capacitive touch panel. A synchronizing winding will oscillate to generate a signal having a frequency similar to that of the capacitive touch panel. An oscillator will amplify the signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100053111 - Multi-touch control for touch sensitive display: A method performed by a device having a touch panel and a display includes identifying touch coordinates of a first touch on the touch panel, and associating the first touch coordinates with an object on the display. The method also includes identifying touch coordinates of a second touch on the... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100053114 - Touch panel apparatus and method for manufacturing the same: A touch panel apparatus includes a position detection electrode formed in a touch region and made of ITO, and a wiring portion provided in a frame region and electrically connected to the position detection electrode. The wiring portion has a first pattern film extended from the position detection electrode and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100053115 - Touch screen display: A touch screen display apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a conductive pad formed on the first substrate, a cell-gap spacer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, an auxiliary cell-gap spacer disposed around the cell-gap spacer, and a conductive spacer formed... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100053118 - Display module: A display module includes a display panel and a fingerprint sensor. The display panel includes a display region, a peripheral region next to the display region, an active device array substrate, and an opposite substrate. The fingerprint sensor is disposed in the peripheral region of the active device array substrate... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100053119 - Input/output device: An input/output device capable of displaying a high-resolution two-dimensional image and detecting the position of an object in three-dimensional space in spite of having a low profile is provided. An input/output device includes: a display section including, in a mixed manner, image pickup regions for obtaining image pickup data of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100053117 - Writing device: A writing device comprising: an irradiation unit that irradiates light to an optically writable display medium which displays an image responsive to irradiated light; a focusing unit that focuses light irradiated by the irradiation unit on the display medium; and a selector that causes the light irradiated by the irradiation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100053120 - Touchscreen stylus: A touchscreen stylus applies to a capacitive touchscreen and comprises a body being hollow and having an accommodating space thereinside, and a coil arranged inside the accommodating space and forming a current loop. The body also has an electric-conduction element at one end thereof, and the electric-conduction element is used... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100053124 - Digital photo frame with mirror function: A digital photo frame (DPF) includes a power source, a power management unit, a display panel, a backlight unit, a motion detector and a processing unit. The display panel includes a reflective structure. The power management unit is used to manage the power supply from the power source to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100053122 - Display control of classified content based on flexible interface e-paper conformation: A system includes, but is not limited to one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition of first information associated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of a flexible interface containing electronic device and... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053127 - Display device: An object of the present invention is to reduce the number of defective connections between wires for source drivers and video signal lines. The present invention provides a display device having a display panel with a number of scan signal lines and a number of video signal lines, first wiring... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100053123 - Display device and method for data transmission to display panel driver: A display device is provided with a display panel; a driver driving the display panel; and a control apparatus transmitting image data and control data to the driver by using an image data signal. The driver includes a PLL circuit which performs clock data recovery from the image data signal... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100053125 - Display driver integrated circuit apparatus and method of operating the same: A display driver integrated circuit (IC) apparatus having an improved data transmission characteristic, an electronic apparatus having the same, and a method of operating the same. The display driver IC apparatus includes a memory unit to store data, a logic circuit unit to perform data processing of a plurality of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20100053121 - System and apparatus for deflection optics: Various embodiments of the present invention provide for systems and apparatuses directed toward using a contact lens and deflection optics to processes display information and non-display information. In one embodiment of the invention, a contact lens assembly is provided, comprising: a substrate including optical path optics and configured to receive... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20100053129 - Integrated circuit device and electronic equipment: An integrated circuit device includes: a plurality of data line driving circuits that drive a plurality of data voltage supply lines; a comparator that compares a data voltage corresponding to a data line driving circuit to be corrected among the plurality of data line driving circuits with a comparator reference... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100053130 - Driver integrated circuit chip and driving circuit of a flat panel display: A driver integrated circuit (IC) chip includes an internal operation circuit, a signal output circuit, an output terminal, at least one first power wire and at least one second power wire. The internal operation circuit provides an internal signal. The signal output circuit is electrically coupled to the internal operation... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100053133 - Display device and electronic apparatus equipped with the same: A display device that can reduce power consumption while displaying an image with the same aspect ratio as the display screen, and an electronic apparatus equipped with such a display device are provided. The display device includes a liquid crystal display that displays an image; normal-illumination LEDs that emit illumination... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100053132 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus control method: A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight provided on a rear face of the liquid crystal panel; a detector which detects RGB output light levels of the backlight; a first controller which controls backlight current for driving the backlight so... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100053135 - Electronic device using movement of particles: A method is provided of driving an electronic device comprising an array of device elements, each device element comprising particles which are moved to control a device element state, and each device element comprising a collector electrode, and an output electrode. The method comprises: in a reset phase, applying a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100053134 - Plasma display device and plasma display panel driving method: A sustain pulse generation circuit of a plasma display device generates and switches a first sustain pulse for causing light emission having double peaks, a second sustain pulse having a falling edge steeper than that of the first sustain pulse, and a third sustain pulse having a rising edge and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100053139 - Bistable display device: In a bistable display device having a driver circuit, the driver circuit has multiple electrical ports for electrically connecting to external circuits. The electric potential difference between any two neighboring ports is less than 10 volts so that electrical punch-through caused by great electric potential difference and short distance between... Agent: Lanway Ipr Services

20100053140 - Display apparatus: The present invention improves the reliability of a display apparatus by suppressing the temperature rise of the display apparatus mounted on a wall. The display apparatus is provided with a wall mount switch to detect a wall mount member if the wall mount member is attached to the rear of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100053138 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: In a display apparatus and a method of driving the display apparatus, data voltages, which correspond to image data, are supplied to data lines to drive a plurality of pixels arranged in pixel areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and data lines, and gate signals are sequentially supplied... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100053137 - Display device and driving method thereof: In a display device, a signal controller compensates for luminance of an input image signal that corresponds to each of a plurality of pixels in accordance with a luminance compensation coefficient depending on a position of each pixel, and generates a compensation image signal. A data driver generates data signals... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100053142 - Electro-optical device and electronic device: An electro-optical device includes: an active element layer in which a pixel circuit including a memory circuit for storing gradation data is formed; a pixel electrode formed to overlap with the active element layer, so that an electric potential in accordance with the gradation data is supplied thereto; an electro-optical... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100053136 - Gradation voltage correction system and display device using the same: In one embodiment of the present invention, a gradation voltage correction system is provided in a liquid crystal display device that is configured to be capable of displaying a color image, and corrects gradation voltages to be supplied to a plurality of pixels. The gradation voltage correction system includes a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100053141 - Pixel circuit driving method, light emitting device, and electronic apparatus: Provided is a method of driving a plurality of pixel circuits. The pixel circuits are disposed corresponding to intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor connected to the light emitting element... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100053143 - Pixel unit, display panel and electronic system utilizing the same: A system for displaying image is provided. The system includes a pixel unit coupled to a source driver and including a first switch, a second switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a driving transistor, and a luminiferous device. The first switch includes a first control terminal receiving a first... Agent: Liu & Liu

20100053144 - Image display device: Provided is an image display device including: a plurality of pixel scanning lines; a plurality of signal lines; and a plurality of pixel circuits corresponding to intersections between the pixel scanning lines and the signal lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes: a driver transistor; a light emitting element for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100053147 - Display device and method of driving the same: Provided are a display device with improved display quality and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a display panel which includes a plurality of dither blocks displaying an image that corresponds to a dither image signal; and an image signal controller which generates the dither image... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100053148 - Light turning device with prismatic light turning features: A light guide device includes a light guide body and two or more pluralities of spaced-apart slits. The slits are formed by undercuts in the light guide body. Sidewalls of the slits form facets that redirect light impinging on the facets. In some embodiments, the light guide body is attached... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20100053146 - Timing controller and display apparatus having the same: In a timing controller and a display apparatus, the timing controller generates an internal enable signal based on an external enable signal and processes image data using the internal enable signal. The timing controller determines a width of each of the plurality of pulses of the external enable signal and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100053149 - Display apparatus and display method: A display apparatus includes a content detector configured to, on the basis of meta data of content data being reproduced, detect associated content data associated with the content data being reproduced; and a display controller configured to cause a reproduction image contained in the content data being reproduced to be... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100053151 - In-line mediation for manipulating three-dimensional content on a display device: A user holds the mobile device upright or sits in front of a nomadic or stationary device, views the monitor from a suitable distance, and physically reaches behind the device with her hand to manipulate a 3D object displayed on the monitor. The device functions as a 3D in-line mediator... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20100053152 - System and method for the interactive display of data in a motion capture environment: A system includes an analysis system for performing an analysis and a motion capture environment interfaced with the analysis system. The motion capture system includes at least one sensor-tracker for tracking a location of a tracked object within the motion capture environment and one or more computers collectively operable to... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20100053156 - Method for generating a computer assisted assembly function: A method for generating a computer assisted assembly function, according to which a base geometry is input to the assembly function. The base geometry or a portion thereof is subdivided to one or more divisions, where selected forms of objects are applied to the base geometry, and the selected forms... Agent: Marsteller & Associates

20100053159 - Combined intensity projection: The invention relates to a system (100) for rendering an image based on a volumetric image data set, the system comprising: a computation unit (110) for computing an initial pixel intensity of a pixel of the image, defined by a corresponding voxel intensity of a corresponding voxel comprised in the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100053160 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An extraction unit extracts a centerline of a tubular structure from a volume data set. A generation unit generates a plurality of image data sets concerning a plurality of curved planes based on the volume data set. Each of the curved planes contains the centerline. The plurality of image data... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20100053161 - System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes: Systems and methods for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without comprising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing a predetermined property revealed by the attributes. The combined image can be interactively manipulated to display each attribute relative to an... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20100053163 - Point-cloud clip filter: A viewer renders a first image from a point cloud of data of a scanned scene accessed from a data store. A region of interest may then be defined. In response, the image is updated to only include data included within the region of interest. Alternatively, the region of interest... Agent: Workman Nydegger/leica 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100053165 - Image adjusting system and method: An image adjusting method includes supplying an adjusting device connected with a display device; receiving an adjusting request including a source location, a target location and a revolution of the display device from the display device; obtaining the source location, the target location and the revolution of the display device... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100053166 - Information processing apparatus, and super-resolution achievement method and program: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a control module configured such that, when an angles calculated are predetermined angles, processing by a processing module is not performed on blocks corresponding to the predetermined angles, and when the angles calculated are angles other than the predetermined angle, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100053168 - Method for graphically displaying pieces of music: A Method for graphically displaying pieces of music on a screen, comprising: providing a plurality of pieces of music, each piece of music having a music attribute; calculating a mapping function that maps values of said music attribute to coordinate values of a dimension of said screen; determining, for each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100053167 - Statistical economic data display system and program: Even if a display means or a memory capacity of a terminal device is small in size, a plurality of economic statistical data are displayed in such a form that the data can be compared with each other. Out of economic statistical data a client terminal device (1a) acquires from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100053169 - System and method for communication between mobile devices using digital/acoustic techniques: Techniques have been developed for transmitting and receiving information conveyed through the air from one portable device to another as a generally unperceivable coding within an otherwise recognizable acoustic signal. For example, in some embodiments in accordance with the present invention(s), information is acoustically communicated from a first handheld device... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20100053171 - Method for generating stroke-based font characters for a low-resolution display: A method and computer graphical user interface tool for generating and/or modifying character font data to be suitable for low-resolution display are provided. The method generally includes four steps. First, a set of characters to be displayed on a low-resolution display is received. Each character is formed with one or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100053172 - Mesh transfer using uv-space: Mesh data and other proximity information from the mesh of one model can be transferred to the mesh of another model, even with different topology and geometry. A correspondence can be created for transferring or sharing information between points of a source mesh and points of a destination mesh. Information... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20100053174 - Display control of classified content based on flexible interface e-paper conformation: A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and controlling display of one or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronic device regarding display of second information having one or more classifications in response to the first information associated with the one or more changes in the one... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053175 - Wireless display for compensation or cause: Embodiment of wireless display devices that may display graphics, advertisements, text and data of any type controlled remotely or by embedded instructions that are embedded, affixed or weaved into clothing and other belongings of a person. Businesses can partner with people willing to wear said device for compensation. The said... Agent: Bedros Peter Tashjian

20100053177 - Graphics processing system including at least three bus devices: Multichip graphics processing subsystems include at least three distinct graphics devices (e.g., expansion cards) coupled to a high-speed bus (e.g., a PCI Express bus) and operable in a distributed rendering mode. One of the graphics devices provides pixel data to a display device, and at least one of the other... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20100053176 - Video processing across multiple graphics processing units: A processing unit, method, and graphics processing system are provided for processing a plurality of frames of graphics data. For instance, the processing unit can include a first plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), a second plurality of GPUs, and a plurality of compositors. The first plurality of GPUs can... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100053178 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: at least one image input unit, to which a plurality of input images are input according to respective frame rates; and a controller that arranges an operation time and an operation order of each of tasks for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100053179 - Systems and methods for framebuffer management: Methods for managing a framebuffer in a single memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory on printing devices are presented. In some embodiments, a method for managing at least one pixmap corresponding to an image using equal sized blocks allocated to the pixmap from a memory pool... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100053181 - Method and device of processing video: A memory controller is disclosed that allocates local memory space to a set of macroblocks of a picture being processed. Information associated with a specific macroblock of the set of macroblocks is written to non-local memory when it is no longer needed to complete processing of a current row of... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20100053180 - Method and system for cryptographically securing a graphics system: A system and method for cryptographically securing a graphics system connectable via an external bus to a computing system, the graphics system including a graphics processor, a video memory and a memory controller for controlling the flow of data to and from the video memory. The graphics system further includes... Agent: Anglehart Et Al.

20100053183 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel and a timing controller. The timing controller includes a first memory unit which sequentially receives a first image signal and a second image signal at a first data rate and outputs the first and second image signals at a second data... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100053184 - Apparatus and method for processing image data: An image data processing apparatus includes a temporary reception buffer. A reception interface section generates first write addresses and first read address for the temporary reception buffer and memory write addresses for a storage unit. When pixel data for a first block are continuously and sequentially supplied, the pixel data... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100053185 - Video display device capable of compensating for display defects: A video display device including an integrated atypical/typical defect compensation circuit is disclosed. The video display device includes a display panel, a memory storing atypical/typical defect information used to compensate atypical/typical defect regions of the display panel, and an integrated atypical/typical compensation circuit including a first compensator for compensating input... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20100053188 - Digital photo frame capable of adjusting digital image and method thereof: A method for adjusting digital image is provided. The method includes: acquiring a predetermined time interval; receiving input signals; generates control signals according to operations on the button; and adjusting images according to the control signals.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100053189 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having: a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen; a determining unit for determining the application program started by the display controlling unit; and a changing unit for changing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100053186 - Mesh transffer in n-d space: Systems and methods are disclosed allowing data and other information from one model to be transferred to another model. A surface correspondence between meshes of the models can be created that provides a transfer or sharing of information to include all points of one mesh and all points of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20100053192 - Information processing apparatus, program, and information processing method: An information processing apparatus including a storage section storing a plurality of content data and characteristics data of the plurality of content data, and a creation section for creating a moving image having movement according to the characteristics data of each of the plurality of content data and for creating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100053190 - Method and apparatus for signal compensation in an image display device: A signal compensation method for an image display device includes deriving an input signal, which is a product of an original signal and a gain value, comparing the input signal with a threshold range for generating a comparison result, generating a difference value according to the comparison result, and generating... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100053196 - Programmable cycle state machine interface: A programmable cycle state machine interface to a microcontroller comprising a programmable cycle state machine, a first and second data bus, a first and second control output, and a control input for programming the cycle of the state machine. The programmable nature of the state machine allows for design and... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100053191 - System and method for computing and displaying a roundness error of an object: A method and system for computing and displaying a roundness error of an object specifies different colors that respectively represents an error range of points. The method and system receives a point cloud of the object and fits a circle based on the point cloud. The method and system computes... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100053197 - System and method for enhancing gray scale output on a color display: There is disclosed a system and method for enhancing gray scale output on a color display. Various gray intensities are mapped based on an image made of various shades of gray so that a viewer perceives a depth of gray levels beyond those available in gray scale from the color... Agent: Sonosite, Inc. / Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.

20100053200 - Method and device for coding video levels in a plasma display panel: The invention relates to a method and a device for coding video levels of pixels of a colour component of a picture to be displayed on a display device into code words. The invention is more particularly applicable to Plasma Display Panels (PDP) to improve the picture quality (grayscale enhancement,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100053201 - Dynamic theme color palette generation: There is provided a method of changing a theme for a user interface of a computer system comprising receiving an identification of an image with which to define a color palette of a theme for rendering elements of a user interface on a color display of the computer system; analysing... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20100053207 - Application control based on flexible electronic device conformation sequence status: A system includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and one or more coordination modules configured to direct coordinating the one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible electronic device with one or more commands. In... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053205 - Method, apparatus, and system for displaying graphics using html elements: A method, apparatus, and system for redefining a graphic in a web browser using HTML elements are disclosed. The method begins with requesting the graphic from a data source. The method continues by obtaining graphic data from the data source, the graphic data including at least one primitive defining the... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100053208 - System and method of contouring a target area: A two-dimensional contouring tool that allows a user to maintain a minimum distance away (in 3D) from other structures. The contouring tool allows the user to rapidly define a series of contours that conform to the shape of one or more existing contours (or targets) with user-specified margin limits between... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100053213 - Medical image display apparatus and method, and program for displaying medical image: A storage device of a report producing terminal stores an importance table. The importance table stores grades of importance of respective items of accessory information on medical images. Prior to displaying a medical image on a screen, an area defining section extracts a main subject display area of the medical... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20100053214 - X-ray detection apparatus and information processing method: An X-ray image diagnosis apparatus allows setting information indicating an object direction in a radiographed image without any errors. This invention is an X-ray detection apparatus which detects X-rays applied to an object and generates a radiographed image of the object. This apparatus includes a unit to display, in a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100053215 - Creation and application of patterns to diagram elements: Users of drawing applications can utilize patterns to efficiently create diagrams as users tend to create similar drawings over time. For example, a user may create two use case diagrams. The first use case diagram depicts use cases for driving a car and the second use case diagram depicts use... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20100053216 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation input receiving means for receiving a user's operation input; and display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100053217 - E-paper display control of classified content based on e-paper conformation: A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining first information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20100053218 - System for adaptively orienting a display image on a device: A system adaptively orients a display image on a device for presenting data acquired via one or more cables connected to a particular side of the device. The system includes a sensor for detecting orientation of the device and providing a device orientation representative signal indicating whether the device is... Agent: Jack Schwartz & Associates, PLLC

20100053219 - Panning in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device: This invention relates to panning in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for navigating a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device having a touch screen. A user input is received indicating that an object has touched a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20100053220 - Information processing apparatus and method and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation-input receiving means for receiving operation input of a user; and display control means for arranging one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and performing, with a part of the desktop set as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100053221 - Information processing apparatus and operation method thereof: An information processing apparatus that can fix the position at which some of a plurality of objects are displayed, and scroll objects other than these objects in that state, using a small number of procedural steps is provided. A recognition unit recognizes that a plurality of positions have been designated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100053232 - image optimization method for liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides an image optimization method for performing data update on pixel units in the pixel matrix of the liquid crystal displays. The pixel matrix includes at least a first row and a second row, wherein the first row and the second row respectively include a plurality of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100053228 - Display apparatus and driving method thereof: A display apparatus includes; a display panel which displays an image in response to a gate voltage and a data voltage, a panel driver which receives a control signal, and which supplies the gate voltage and the data voltage to the display panel according to the control signal, a backlight... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100053231 - Display apparatus having various shape: Disclosed relates to a display device including: a display unit displaying an image and formed such that interior angles that outer frames thereof make have values smaller or larger than 90°, and a driving unit driving the display unit by supplying image and character information to the display unit. Moreover,... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100053230 - Display device using movement of particles: A method is provided for driving a display device comprising an array of rows and columns of display pixels, each pixel comprising particles which are moved to control the display state of the pixel. A display addressing mode is provided for writing an output image on a display, which has... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100053223 - Gradation control method and display device: The present invention relates to a gradation control method, for a display device, in which one frame is divided into a plurality of subframes and lighting times for pixels corresponding to the subframes are controlled based on the sum of respective light-emitting times in the subframes, so that gradations of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100053226 - Image display apparatus and method for driving the same: The present invention sets power supply drive signals DS[1] and DS[2] at a power supply voltage Vcc in a timesharing for odd lines and their subsequent even lines and sets a write signal WS to correspond to the time division setting, thereby sharing a scan line of the write signal... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100053227 - Image recognition method, image recognition apparatus and image input/output apparatus: An image recognition method includes: a first step of acquiring n-th received light data at light receiving elements arranged in a matrix form on a light receiving surface; a second step of acquiring (n+1)-th received light data at the light receiving elements; a third step of calculating differential data resulting... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100053233 - Method of driving pixel circuit, light emitting device, and electronic apparatus: There is provided a method of driving a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting element; a driving transistor that is connected to the light emitting element in series; a storage capacitor that is interposed between a path, which is formed between the light emitting element and the driving transistor,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100053222 - Methods and systems for display source light management with rate change control: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for modifying or adjusting a display source light illumination level based on power consumption goals. In some embodiments, a rate control parameter may be used to limit the rate at which the illumination level is varied. In some embodiments, image... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100053224 - Plasma display device: The characteristics of a filter are controlled based on index information relating to the power consumption of an address driver that drives address electrodes for selecting light emission or no light emission of display cells based on display data, and filtering is performed on the display data in the arrangement... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100053229 - Rim system for a display: This invention relates to a rim system for a display such as a TV or a computer display. Controllable light sources are used for emitting light beam of at least one wavelength into a light guide comprising an inner and an outer side and a front and a back side,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100053234 - Driving of electrowetting displays: The invention relates to a method of driving an electrowetting display which includes a plurality of electrowetting elements, the display comprising at least one first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with each other, each of the electrowetting elements comprising at least one surface area. In a first, relatively low... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

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